Ferrari’s chief technical officer Matti🐻a Binotto has revealed the cause behind the team’s double engine failure during the Malaysia GP race weekend which came as ‘completely unexpected’ after not showing up during dyno testing.

Sebastian Vettel saw his qualifying at Sepang༒ ended prematurely by an engine issue which forced him to start the Malaysia race from last place, while Kimi Raikkonen suffered an identical issue with his car during his sighting lap to the starting grid and was forced to miss the start of the race.

Ferrari has run thorough analysis into the cause of the double engine failure an🅺d Binot🅷to says it was a problem with the inlet manifold on the compressor to the cylinder heads on both cars which was triggered by a defective part.

Ferrari President Sergio Marchionne says changes to the team’s quality departm♛꧙ent will be enforced to avoid future issues, which Binotto has confirmed in Japan, while explaining the failure only occurred in Malaysia despite the team getting through the entire season, testing and dyno testing without the issue appearing.

“The problem we got was completely unexpected and a problem that we didn’t experience on the dyno or at the track for the entire season,” Binottꦡo said at Suzuka. “There were some quality issue with the parts. We failed with 🐲an inlet manifold on the engine from the compressor to the cylinder heads and it happened twice because we had the same problem with Seb in qualifying and Kimi in the race.

“It happened twice in the entire season both in Malaysia so some boundary conditions have affected the overall reliability which we are analysing but it is something we still need to betterও understand.

“You can never be fully confident of having solved t📖he problems that we’ve got.”

Binotto has confirmed Marchionne’s comments about the changeཧs to Ferrari’s quality parts department and hopes th🌼e future steps will avoid similar failures.

“I think that to improve your performance you need to improve your car package overall but you need to also imp♚rove your organisation,” he said. “We are considering something which is planned to improve the quality d🅰epartment. It is as simple as that.

“ꦇOur quality department will be reinforced, tha🔥t is the part of the organisation our chairman was speaking of.”

Ferrari’s Vettelℱ topped the timesheet on Friday practice in Japan two-tenths ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the Mercede𝓡s in FP1 after the second session was a washout.