A statement from Ferrari on Tuesday 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:confirmed the 53-year-ol🌞d will leave the team on December 31 after a three-year reign. While a successor was not named, Ferrarꦏi said the process to identify a replacement is underway and is expected to be finalised “in the n🍨ew year”. 

Ferrari now faces the task of finding a suitable candidate who is not only available, but also willing, to head F1’s most famous organisat🐼ion, something which has been considered a poisoned chalice - rather than a privilege - in recent times. 

So🌳, who could become Ferrari’s fourth team pri🧸ncipal in eight years? 

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Frederic Vasseur 

Current boss of the Ferrari-linked Alfa Romeo,⛎ Frederic Vasseur, has been widely tipped as the favourite to succeed Binotto at Maranello. 

Through his work at Renault and Alfa Romeo, Vasseur has ea༺rned a respected reputation for being an effective and no-nonsense team leader.

The Frenchman has never before had a job with the kind of stakes that come with leading Ferrari, 🎀but is regarded as the ideal replacement for Binotto to bring some much-needed stability to the Italian outfit. 

Vasseur’s strong relationship with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, who he managed d꧒uring the Monegasque’s meteoric rise through the junior categories - and in his rookie F1 season at Sauber - is considered to be a real asset. 

Relations between Leclerc and Binotto are believed to have soured amid a catalogue of strategic and reliability errors during Ferrari’s fail🃏ed 2022 title bid, even to the extent Leclerc’s camp were reportedly pushing for a change of guard. 

Ferrari are desperate to keep Leclerc on side and ward off potential interest from Mercedes, who will be starting to think about168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s long-term successor. 

Ferrari didn’t do too badly the last time they had a 𓆏French team boss🐲…

Andeas Seidl

Like Vasseur, another no-nonsense♑ man🦄ager can be found in Andreas Seidl. 

Seidl does not like to get involved in F🍌1 politicking, at least not publicly, and has impressed during his relatively short tenure at McLare💜n, guiding the team’s revival from the doldrums of their mid-to-late 2010s slump.

With Ferrari eyeing escape from a similar period of stagnation to end their long wait 🍷for F1 silverware, could Seidl provide the answer the team have been looking for?

The German is thought to 💃be high on Ferrari’s list of targets, though reports in Italy suggest an approach has already proven unsuccessful. 

Christian Horner 

Another obvious option for Ferrari to consider would be Red Bull team principal 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Christian Horner. 

After years of struggles in the V6 hybrid era, Red 𒆙Bull, under Horner’s leadership, successfully broke Mercedes and Hamilton’s ♏unchallenged run of F1 supremacy in 2021, and have gone on to win back-to-back drivers’ world titles, as well as their first constructors’ championship since 2013. 

Horner was among the many respected♚ figures in the F1 paddock that Ferrari reportedly spoke t♔o about becoming their new team principal. However, according to , he rejected the chance. 

Horner is understood to remain fully focused and coꦑmmitted to Red Bull’s project, with his influence at Milton Keynes only likely to expand following the passing of founder 🧜Dietrich Mateschitz. 

Ross Brawn

A wildcard move could see 168澳洲幸运5官🦄方开奖结果历史:Ferrari try to convince Ross Brawn to remain in F1 and return🦂 to the place he enjoyed some of his greatest🌜 success. 

Brawn was an integral part of Ferrari and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Michael Schumacher’s dominance of F1 as the team’s former t🥂echni🌺cal director, before going on to spearhead Brawn GP’s double title-winning campaign in 2009 and later holding a frontline role at Mercedes. 

Re-hiring Brawn would certainly be a nostalgic move from Ferrari, but they would have to do some serious hea🐷d-turning given Brawn has effectively ruled himself out of another job after retiring from his F1 management role. 

“I’ve loved almost every minute of my 46-year career and I’ve been fortunate to have🌠 worked with many great teams, great drivers and great people,” Brawn wrote in his final column for the official F1 website. “I wouldn’t have changed a thing.

“I will now watch F1 from my sof♊a, cheering and cursing as an F1 fan, pleased that the sport is in a fantastic place and has such a fantastic future.”

A hire from within? 

If Ferrari were unable to find a suitable replacement, or be unsuccessful in thei𝔉r attempts to entice one from a rival team, the Scuderia could always look closer to home. 

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is set to oversee the F1ꦍ team while the search for a successor is ongoing, but could he end up taking up the role on a permanent basis? 

Current Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies has deputised for Binotto🤪 on several occasions when the latter has missed a grand prix. He could move i🌳nto the role full-time if Ferrari opted to promote from within. 

Antonello Coletta, who is the head of Ferrari’s Sports and GT operation, is ♛also said to be an option being considered for the top ranking position at the F1 team.