Ferrari ’not doing a good job’ in 2014 - Alonso

Fernando Alonso has admitted Ferrari is "not doing a good job so far" in 2014.

As the Spaniard starts his fifth consecutive season with the Italian team without having added to his title tally, Alonso finished off the podium in Australia and Malaysia and qualified just tenth in Bahrain on Saturday.

After the floodlit qualifying session in the island Kingdom, Alonso admitted that Ferrari’s new F14-T car "has remained the same for the last three races".

"It is clear that we have to step up, because we are not doing a good job so far. We’ve been testing some new things this weekend and we are in a little bit of a better position. But that’s not enough."

"We didn’t perform good starts in Australia and Malaysia. There is room to improve there. I trust and I have confidence that tomorrow if we can do a good start for the first time, a good first lap, hopefully that will put us in a position to go with the leaders.

"It is going to be a difficult race, no doubt. I don’t think that we expected before coming here to have a nice race. We will see what we can do tomorrow. Taking some points will be welcome in a difficult weekend."