<p> The Spaniard went into the Abu Dhabi season-ender in the lead in the standings but an early pit-stop backfired, leaving him to finish the race seventh while Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won to take the crown. <br /><br />“I asked myself if it was right or not to stay. It seemed a reflection I had to do, a responsible one. I'm not attached to the hotseat,” Domenicali told La Repubblica on Tuesday. <br /><br />“However, I reached the conclusion that to resign would have been an error.” <br />He said he had not feared the sack but did not sleep for two days after the race. <br /><br />Domenicali, whose team will unveil their 2011 car at the end of January after it passed a series of mandatory crash tests last month, is now raring to go for the season having admitted Red Bull were “objectively” quicker than the Italians last year. <br /><br />“I know the team and I think I am the right person to capitalise best on what we have done in these months,” he said. <br /><br />“From a methodology point of view, at Maranello we have changed almost everything and I'm certain that soon we will see the results of all this work.” <br /><br />The sport's most successful team, who finished a distant third overall last year with Alonso and Brazilian Felipe Massa, said on their website (www.ferrari.com) that their factory was fully back to work after the Christmas break. <br /><br />“The new season beckons, with the launch of the new car planned for the final week of this month, while testing gets underway on Feb 1 at Cheste's Ricardo Tormo circuit near Valencia,” the team said. <br /><br />Alonso and Massa will take part in a media event with Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi, now with Ducati, in the Dolomites next week.</p>
<p> The Spaniard went into the Abu Dhabi season-ender in the lead in the standings but an early pit-stop backfired, leaving him to finish the race seventh while Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won to take the crown. <br /><br />“I asked myself if it was right or not to stay. It seemed a reflection I had to do, a responsible one. I'm not attached to the hotseat,” Domenicali told La Repubblica on Tuesday. <br /><br />“However, I reached the conclusion that to resign would have been an error.” <br />He said he had not feared the sack but did not sleep for two days after the race. <br /><br />Domenicali, whose team will unveil their 2011 car at the end of January after it passed a series of mandatory crash tests last month, is now raring to go for the season having admitted Red Bull were “objectively” quicker than the Italians last year. <br /><br />“I know the team and I think I am the right person to capitalise best on what we have done in these months,” he said. <br /><br />“From a methodology point of view, at Maranello we have changed almost everything and I'm certain that soon we will see the results of all this work.” <br /><br />The sport's most successful team, who finished a distant third overall last year with Alonso and Brazilian Felipe Massa, said on their website (www.ferrari.com) that their factory was fully back to work after the Christmas break. <br /><br />“The new season beckons, with the launch of the new car planned for the final week of this month, while testing gets underway on Feb 1 at Cheste's Ricardo Tormo circuit near Valencia,” the team said. <br /><br />Alonso and Massa will take part in a media event with Italian MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi, now with Ducati, in the Dolomites next week.</p>