Martin Brundle’s verdict on Ferrari team boss change: ‘Mercedes and Red Bull will be smiling'
A dramatic F1 managerial merry-go-round has been sparked into life during the off-season following a reshuffle at Ferrari, with Frederic Vasseur confirmed as Mattia Binotto🎐’s successܫor earlier this week.
That was almost immediately followed by the announcement of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andreas Seidl’s fast💧-tracked🍸 departure from McLaren to become CEO at Saꦰuber, effectively replacing Vasseur.
But former F1 driver-turned-pundit Brundle has questioned the timing💟 of Ferr🌼ari’s decision to make such a fundamental change, and suggested it will leave the Italian outfit in a state of “limbo”.
"I'm not quite su𒀰re why Ferrari would choose now to have a month without a boss," Brundle told Sky. "I do think they should have given Binotto more time.
༒"If I was Mercedes or Red Bull right now, I'd be smiling because continuity is everything.
"As Formula ⛦1 seasons get longer and more intense, you have to be careful of these sea changes of personnel.
"Mercedes have got real continuity, as have Red Bull in key personnel. Fred Vasseur has got to go in and ꦬfind his way, get established, understand, an🐠d it's a tall order.
"It doesn't matter who you are, it's going tꦬo takꦗe time unless you are a part of the fabric like [former boss Stefano] Domenicali was and like Binotto has been.
"It is such a fundamental change and it wꦆill destabilise them in the short term, it has to. Everybody will be slightly off balance thinkin༒g, where do they stand, and what's next. They'll be in limbo.”
On Mercedes, Brundle added: “They will be smiling because they know what's wrong with their car and I think they'll come back 🅰with a much stronger in 2023.
"I do see Mercedes brin▨ging the fight to 🌄Ferrari and Red Bull next season.”
‘Seidl’s exit bad news for McLaren, Norris’
Brundle also gave his verdict on the more surp🌠rising news of Seidl’s departure from McLaren.
Seidl will join the Alfa Romeo-Sauber squad next year to ready the team ahead of Audi’s arrival in 2026, with McLaren naming Andrea Stella as his replacement in the💃 team principal position with immediate effect.
McLaren revealed Seidl had alrea💎dy informed the team that he would be joining Audi✨ when his contract expired at the end of 2025, but Ferrari’s swoop for Vasseur ultimately sped up his move.
"There's no doubt about it, losing Seidl is bad news for MꦅcLaren going forward," said Brundle.
"He's had a long term relationship♓ with the Volkswagen group with Porsche so I can understand what he's done and I can understand why McLaren wanted to expedite that.But this is🅠 not what they needed.
"The big thing for McLaren is their new win💦ꦐd tunnel in 2024. So Lando will be looking at it thinking, why has Andreas jumped ship? What has Andreas seen at Audi, that he much prefers to McLaren?
"Oscar [Piastri, new signing] will be disappointed as well because he would ha꧋ve done all the discussions, all the imaginations, with Andreas, for Oscar toꦇ join and Lando to stay.
"Lando is very close to Zak [Brown] and he is doing a great job there, there's a good structure at Mc♛Laren. I don't panic in the slightest for them, but you can't read this as good news."
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