It is too early to say whether they have completely fixed their operational problems, because it was only the last race in Spain where they misjudged qualifying with Raikkonens F1 blog. They have also got on top of the reliability issues which cost them at the start of the season.

It is tempting to say that Ferrari has now moved into place as the second best car in the field, ahead of the Red Bull, but Im not sure that will be the case everywhere, especially the next two races in Turkey and Silverstone where the Red Bull will stretch its legs on the long fast corners.

But there is no doubt that Ferrari has made the most progress of any team since the start of the season.

Sundays Monaco Grand Prix saw confirmation that Ferrari are back in business. Kimi Raikkonen qualified within hundredths of a second of Jenson Button with only two laps less fuel on board and in the race the Scuderia got its first double points haul of the season, with Raikkonen third and Felipe Massa fourth.

On top of that, Massa set the speediest race lap, with 1min 15.154, four hundredths of a second faster than Jenson Buttons swiftest lap in the Brawn and two tenths faster than the Red Bull of Mark Webber.