Ferrari CEO rages at Fred Vasseur for friendship with Toto Wolff, while “worried” Charles Leclerc demands crisis talks
The Ferrari and M🔯ercedes team principals have long been a🦋micable, and shared a flight into Bahrain then a post-qualifying meeting in Wolff’s team’s motorhome.
But Benedetto Vigna, the Ferrari CEO who hi𒈔red Vasseur as Mattia Binotto’s replacement this winter, is not impressed by his cosꦆiness with Wolff, report.
Th♔e problems deepen for Ferrari, just one race into 2023.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc demanded a crisis meeting with Ferrari president John Elkann at Maranello tღo seek reassurances after he retired from the Ba𝓡hrain GP, seemingly a return for the team’s reliability problems.
Leclerc and Elkann share a close relationship but the driver was “eviden𝓰tly worried”, report.
“The atmosphere is tense” at the Scuderi♔a factory in Italy, the report claims.
New team principal Vasseﷺur held his first big meeting in front of employees urging th𝔉em to remain united despite a troubling start to 2023.
Even before the poor race in Bahrain, problems were “agitating the tꩲeam”, Corriere report.
Ferrari had made ambitious predictions for the season based on their wind tunnel and ⛦simulator data yet found themselves changing Leclerc’s energy supply before the o💟pening race, before their star driver failed to finish.
There may be a “technical vacuum” between the reigns of Binotto and🌺 Vasseur, the newspaper claims, meaning the SF-23 is muddled between ideas.
The CEO Vigna has also reportedly created a “climate of unc🎶ertainty and fear”, which is why David Sa🌊nchez quit his job as head of concept.
Inaki Rueda may also leave after his jꦬob as Head of Strategy was downgraded. Gino Rosato and Jonathan Giacobazzi are gone already. And racing director Laurent M♔ekies accepted a job at F1 but Vasseur blocked his exit.
Despite these issues, Vasseur remains i🌞n a “strong position” according to Corriere because of Ferrari’s lack of glory since crowning their last drivers’ champion in 2007, and because of the revolving door of team principals.
Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will be hoping for better luck at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this week🤪end.
Ja♑mes was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to ൩F1.
