Maurizio Arrivabene says speculation about his future at Ferrari is being whipped up by those intending to put the team off its stride.

Ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix, news reports in Italy said Arrivabene could face the sack after the team's lacklustre start to the season. Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne dismissed the speculation and Arrivabene believes the stories were only written in an attempt to destabilise the team.

"I'm not listening to all these rumours going around because the only objective of these rumours is to create tension inside the team. This is not helping, we need to refocus our attention to continue to do what we are doing without listening to all of these rumours that were also talking about somebody from Mercedes, blah, blah. Who is taking advantage of this? No-one."

Arrivabene continued to poke fun at the stories, saying they should have mentioned a character from TV series Game of Thrones.

"I said the other day the only name they forgot to put in the list because the list was full of names, was Tyrion Lannister because maybe he was the main candidate and they forgot to put his name on."