There was a long and intensive reunion at the motor sports department in Maranello. Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo went to see CEO Jean Todt and the Scuderia's management to discuss the situation in the F1 Championship after two thirds of the season. During the meeting the season was analysed and the positive aspects underlined - such as the great competitiveness, shown with five victories, six pole positions and eight fastest laps in the eleven Grands Prix so far - but also the negative aspects were touched upon - such as the reliability level and the number of mistakes made.

Montezemolo invited everyone to give their best during the last six GPs of the season and to remain 100 percent concentrated on the development of the F2007 and the handling of the race weekends. "We can win all the remaining races, because we have the capacity to do it," said Montezemolo at the end of the meeting. "The team has to believe in it. As I myself and Todt believe in it, together with our lawyers. As I've already repeatedly said since the beginning of this story, what has happened is of an incomparable gravity, and we will go on with great determination and profound conviction, until the end, as far as the legal proceedings in Italy and England, but also as far as the sporting proceedings with the hearing at the FIA Court of Appeal, on 13th September in Paris, are concerned. For Ferrari it is fundamental that the whole truth about this ugly story can be seen before everybody's eyes."

Meanwhile the European media has gone into a driver transfer frenzy in the last few days, linking both current McLaren pilots - Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton - with the Ferrari team for 2008.
 

Reigning FIA F1 World Champion Alonso has publicly expressed dissatisfaction with his current situation at the Mercedes-powered team and could well leave at the end of the year. The Spaniard has been openly unhappy with the preferential treatment he perceives Hamilton having received and at the same time he has been struggling to match the pace of his young rookie team mate.

However Alonso reportedly backed out of a verbal agreement made with Jean Todt to join Ferrari several years ago - abruptly - in favour of signing instead with Flavio Briatore's Renault team, and this, along with the fact that he has been unable to get the upper hand with F1 debutant Hamilton, make the option of him appearing at Ferrari next year unlikely.

At the same time the Italian media reckons that Jean Todt sees the current F1 drivers' series leader Hamilton as being the natural future successor to Michael Schumacher and that Scuderia Ferrari is prepared to spend big to secure the Englishman's services, with a figure of US$25 million for next season being bandied about. Hamilton has recently fallen out with double champion team mate Alonso, who held him up in the pits during last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix causing him to miss his final qualifying run; while Hamilton also disobeyed an order from the team during the same event. However this scenario is also unlikely to occur.