Ferrari CEO: Binotto role not under threat despite dismal F1 campaign

Ferrari F1 team principal Mattia Binotto is not at risk of losing his job, according to Ferrari chiefs, despite presiding over one of the worst season's in the Italian marque's illustrious history
Ferrari CEO: Binotto role not under threat despite dismal F1 campaign

Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri says he൩ has "🎀every confidence" in team boss Mattia Binotto despite the team’s poor start to the 2020 Formula 1 season.

Ferrari has endured on🐷e of its worst seasons in decades with the Scuderia currently placed sixth in the constructors’ championship.

It saw both of its cars fail to makꩵe Q3 at its home race at Monza before Sebastian Vettel and Charles Lecl♎erc failed to finish Sunday’s race.

 

 

Despite its poor form, Camilleri insists he has no intention to replace Binotto and has stresse𝕴d the need for "stability".

"I have to say I have every confi🌃dence in Mattia Binotto and his team," Camilleri told the New York Times. "The results aren't there to prove what I'm saying, but these thinℱgs take time.

"Regretfully in the past, ther𓃲e has been too much press💙ure and a history of people being let go. There was somewhat of a revolving-door atmosphere, and I'm putting a stop to that.

"What we need is stability and focus. If you look at Red Bull's period of winning championships, Mercedes today, other than tal🔯ent, one of the key things they had was stability, and that's something frankly our team has been lacking."

Camilleri cited Ferrari’s decisions in the mid-1990s, where it signed Michael Schumacher alongsi😼de Jean To♓dt and Ross Brawn, and the years it required for the team to return to the top.

"If I look back at the calibre of Jean Todt, Michael Schumacher, Ross Brawn [technical director at the ti🍎me♉] and all those guys, it took them six years to get to what they ultimately became -- this phenomenal winning team," he added.

"So I want to ensure that stability remai♍ns in place, despite the unbelievable pressure there is on the team, particularly from the Italian media, who are quite brutal at times, calling for heads to roll, but that's not the solution.

"This doesn't mean, however, that we won't consider injecting additi🧸onal skills and resources into the existing team."

Reflecti💜ng on his own future, Binotto admitted himself that he questioned whether he was the right ma𒆙n to lead F1’s most successful team.

"Honestly never, because I know I have the support of my mana🤡gers,’’ Binotto said in an interview with Corriere della Sera.

"But I questioned myself. I thoꦅught about whether I was suitable for the role of team principal."

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