Last week, will be leavi🌠ng the team at the end of December.

The decision calls time on Binotto’s tenure as team principal of Ferrari after taking over from Mau🌞rizio Arrivabene in 2019.

Ferrari’s inability to capitalise on having the quickest car for over half of the season ul🔜timately cost Binotto his job, with♓ the Scuderia’s top brass growing increasingly frustrated.

ꦫSpeaking at the FIA’s end of season prize giving gala, Leclerc thanked Binotto, but admitted it’ℱs time to “focus on the future”.

“Mattia called me to announce that he wil﷽l stop which I respect his decision and I can only thank him,” Leclerc said. “He believed in me right from the start, he extended me with a very long contract and before being team principal he was also inside the Scuderia for many, many years and he has contributed to the success the team had in the past years. I wish him the best and obviously now it’s now up to us to focus on the future, try and take the right choices in order to be a bit more of a c🤪hallenge to Red Bull next year.”

Leclerc refused to state who he’d like to see replace Binotto, with his former team boss at Sauber, Frederic Vasseur in ꦬthe frame.

“No. I won’t comment on tꦑhat,” he added. “Obviously it’s also not my 🦹decision. John [Elkann] and Benedetto [Vigna] are going to take the decision. 

“We are just trying to focus our job on the simulator, with the team in ord🔯er to have the best race car possible for next year but the decision will 𓆏be done by them.”