Ferrari's Felipe Massa is confident of another strong showing by the Italian team at the British Grand Prix this weekend after the one-two finish notched up in France last week.
"I think it'll be a good weekend for us," said Massa in comments published on his website. "Sure, we'll have to watch out for the McLarens but I think we'll start with an advantage over them".
The Brazilian has won two races so far this season and led for most of the race at Magny-Cours before tailenders slowed him down and enabled team-mate Kimi Raikkonen to overtake him at the pitstop.
Although Ferrari and McLaren have each won four races this season, the British team is 25 points ahead of the Italian one, whose results have not been so consistent.
But Ferrari said this week it believes the success in France, which gave it maximum points, was the start of a revival.
"We want to do the same thing again," said Ferrari President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.
Meanwhile, the run-up to the British race was overshadowed by a 'spying' controversy involving the two top teams.
Ferrari, which had already fired former top engineer Nigel Stepney for a suspected sabotage attempt, has now opened a second legal proceeding against him for allegedly passing technical information to a top McLaren designer in April.
They obtained a British search warrant and found Ferrari documents at the house of the designer, Mike Coughlan.
McLaren on Wednesday assured Ferrari that none of its intellectual property was used on McLaren race cars.
In response to urging from the British team, world motor racing authority FIA opened an inquiry into the case later on Wednesday.
In an interview with British daily The Times on Thursday, Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said McLaren drivers would not be punished, even if leaked Ferrari information was found to have been incorporated into McLaren cars.
