Binotto admits Costa’s car is better designed than his

Is Mattia Binotto that naive to think Costa won't out-develop him throughout the year?

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto has admitted that Mercedes have a 'slightly better' designed car than his team. But of course Aldo Costa has designed better cars than Binotto and Red Bull's Adrian Newey for years.

"I think that, four races in the season, no win for Ferrari, four wins for Mercedes, no doubt that they are very strong, and certainly they've got, let me say, a slightly better car," Binotto said to Autosport after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

"But I think that the gap is not so big, and the points and the results are not reflecting the true potentials of the cars."

"I think that if you've got a car fast enough to score potentially the pole, you've got a good car overall.

"In the race, yes, we were not as fast as them, but we didn't finish 20 seconds behind.

"I think that Seb somehow at the end of the race was quite close, and if you look what the delta, lap time average, on the race, is significant but still little.

"I think it's something on which there is much to try to work and to close in the near future."

Binotto will hope that Ferrari starts to perform and maybe get a bit of luck so that they can end Mercedes dominance with a race win in Spain.