‘Mattia Binotto to be shown the “exit door” at Ferrari?’
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto
The Ferrari Formula One team has slumped massively in the last few races and former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher believes Mattia Binotto could be relieved from his duties during the summer break.
The Maranello-based Italian team showed a lot of promise in the early part of the season but as the season has gone on they have fallen backward massively and now after 13 rounds are in real danger of losing sight of the 2022 World Championship.
One of the main points of criticism for the Mattia Binotto-led team has been the weird decision-making that the team has done especially in the last few races before the summer break.
Moreover, reliability issues have also plagued the progress of the team this season and Schumacher feels, given the damage that has already been done, Binotto could be in line to be shown the exit door at Ferrari.
While stressing over the situation Binotto said, “I already see him in danger during the summer break.”
“There are too many little things that went wrong and too many technical problems.”
“If you get a gift like this, being able to drive for the World Championship and then you endangered it and throw it away, that’s already bitter.”
Mattia Binotto has defended the Ferrari pit wall strategies
Binotto has come under a lot of criticism for the peculiar strategic calls that the team has made but the 52-year-old is adamant that he and his team have got their strategies right more often than not this season.
While stressing about it Binotto said, “We recently had the right strategy in France, in Austria too, so most of the time we’re right, sometimes we make mistakes, but others make them too, they just don’t look too closely.”
In Hungary, the team was looking set for a podium finish with both its cars, and there again, Ferrari made a huge blunder with the strategic call and cost Charles Leclerc a potential win.
The Monegasque driver was asked to come into the pits even when he wanted to carry on with the medium tires and everybody knows what happened when he came out of the pits with a set of hard compounds.
The 24-year-old fell backward on the grid and finished his Budapest outing in P6.
Schumacher while discussing the Ferrari blip in Hungary said, “It was obviously a tough weekend, a wrong decision on Friday because you used up the tires you would have needed in the race. That was bitter for Ferrari.”
“The last stop by Leclerc was incomprehensible to me. You have two more there too places given away.”
“I don’t think Red Bull expected the help.“
The F1 season is currently in its summer break period and is slated to return on the 26th of August this month. Do you also agree with Ralf Schumacher’s assessment of Mattia Binotto? Is he really going to be shown the door during the summer break?
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