Piero Ferrari has rejected suggestions that the team needs to set up a secondary British base.
A number of figures, including Flavio Briatore who was once linked with the team principal job at the Italian team, have suggested the team must set up a design office in the UK, close to the area dubbed 'motorsport valley'.
"I would put a nice building in the middle of Red Bull, McLaren and Williams," Briatore said recently.
But Piero Ferrari, the only living son of team founder Enzo Ferrari, has backed Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne's insistence that the team must stay based in Italy.
"It is never easy to govern a racing team that has over 1000 people and there were organisational problems, but now the direction is right," said Mr. Ferrari
On the subject of a British base, Piero - the Ferrari vice president and co-owner, discussed the 1980s, when Ferrari did open a design office in the UK for John Barnard.
"You know what remains my biggest regret for the years in which I was in charge of the team?" Ferrari told the Italian blogger Leo Turrini. "It was to convince my father that there was still the need to rely on a great designer from the outside. But Barnard never interacted with our culture - it was a big mistake."
"This is why I agree with Marchionne that we can return to winning whilst being consistent with the tradition of Ferrari," he insisted.
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