Ferrari wants to appoint a new team principal, and if they were to steal one from a rival team, who would they probably target?
We already know the answer to this question, because there are very strong rumors about a specific candidate. There have also been hypotheses that he has turned down the opportunity to upgrade Mattia Binotto.
Historically, Italian football clubs have replaced coaches and there is no stigma in hiring someone closely related to a main rival.
So if Ferrari looked along the pit wall, who would they look at enviously?
This is the order we suggest, with the least likely.
Quite a failure for many reasons, although, given the turbulent relationship he had with Binotto, perhaps he can excuse a little smugness if, by some miracle, Wolff ever found himself at the table of the Maranello team principal.
But only Wolff is the boss of Mercedes, he also owns a third of the team, so this move will never happen.
Horner seemed to be kinder to Binotto than to Wolff; again, it would be a surprise of gigantic proportions if the Briton left his long-standing role – he will turn 18 in January – at Red Bull to sign for the Scuderia.
Settled with his circle of relatives in the English countryside, why would Horner leave the team that has just ruled the 2022 season for the soap opera that is Ferrari?’Drive to Survive’ would love it, brain.
We are now leaving the global fantasy to enter the “vaguely realistic” organisation, and Krack is the first of the existing team principals who can give Ferrari an idea for the moment that deserves an offer.
His position on this list is because he only had one season at Aston Martin, and a crusade in which they failed to ignite the world, to say the least, so the lack of fun and achievements would count against him. . enter into Ferrari’s calculations.
Unlike Krack, Szafnauer is a prominent operator at team principal level, having been with Force India/Racing Point/Aston Martin for 12 years before moving to Alpine last winter.
It’s by no means a ridiculous concept that Ferrari would come up with after leading its new team to fourth place in the championship, but its handling of the Oscar Piastro/Fernando Alonso saga midway through the 2022 crusade has left a mark on Szafnauer’s effectiveness in managing drivers. . .
If Ferrari is for a solid pair of senior hands, they may do much worse than Tost, who has been at the helm of Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri since 2005.
But as his 67th birthday approaches, one must wonder if a veteran with deep roots at Red Bull would be the right person, even if he masters the art of knowing what motivates drivers.
Like Tost, age may just be a potential barrier here. Capito openly admitted that he was about to retire when he accepted an offer from Williams for 2021, and is now team principal and executive director!
One of those roles would be noticeably eliminated at Maranello, cutting the workload of a much more competitive team than the one he has lately and, despite Williams’ struggles, the German deserves credit for the work he has done there. Ferrari would be However, it’s an absolutely different ball game.
If Netflix would like to see Horner at Ferrari, believe Steiner!And it’s not as stupid a prospect as you might think, because of Haas’ close ties to the Scuderia and the American team with a design workplace in Maranello.
Being Italian would be his cause, he does not accept nonsense and his uncompromising taste can simply get the team in shape. But does Steiner, who only answers to Gene Haas, have the right corporate symbol for the ultimate iconic brand?
And now we are achieving the genuine contenders. Seidl has been linked with Ferrari and reportedly turned down the task at the team his McLaren team directly competes with in the 2021 campaign.
It’s unclear if the German was the number one contender, but the 46-year-old, who has been McLaren’s team principal since May 2019, has obviously built his reputation on his heyday, and it wouldn’t be unexpected if Mercedes were watching him. also. If Wolff takes a step back in the years to come.
As soon as reports indicated that Binotto on loan, Vasseur promptly called into the framework to be his successor. Links with Ferrari, it has been claimed, even date back to the reign of the past due to Sergio Marchionne as president.
The 54-year-old Frenchman worked with Charles Leclerc on the driver’s first F1 season at Sauber in 2018, while this year his Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo team moved from ninth to sixth in the constructors’ standings.
Will it be Vasseur with his company’s hand on the Ferrari bar next season?It would bring more joy than sporting director Laurent Mekies, who has also been linked, and Benedetto Vigna, CEO of Ferrari, who has reportedly stepped in as interim boss.
Meanwhile, Binotto’s predecessor, Maurizio Arrivabene, will soon be available following the resignation of Juventus’ entire board following the club’s huge monetary losses. Arrivabene remains managing director, but only temporarily.
For Vasseur, it would make perfect sense to accept the position. Alfa Romeo leaves F1 at the end of 2023 when Audi begins teaming up with Sauber for its arrival on the grid in 2026, creating inevitable uncertainty beyond the end of next season.
An appointment may be shown at the beginning of the new year. . . Look at this space.
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