The team principal after so many articles on a change at the top of the team. “Maranello generates passion and pressure: I spoke to the president and the press release clarified that there is no foundation in the matter. Am I still 100% in charge? It’s not up to me to say, but I’m relaxed and open to a constructive conversation “
He was the most eagerly awaited of the team principals’ conference to precede the start of Free Practice 3 of the Abu Dhabi GP at Yas Marina and he didn’t hold back. Mattia Binotto, after the rumors of a change at the top of the Maranello team, with Frederic Vasseur as his probable successor, something Ferrari denied, reacted with irony to the first question on the matter: “I didn’t expect this question, give me time to think about it …”.
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Then Binotto continued: “As Vettel once said, everyone is rooting for Ferrari, even if in some way they follow another team because there is such a strong passion in Maranello that it brings with it so many criticisms and enormous pressure. This thing will never change for the future – explains Mattia Binotto -. baseless”.
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For Mattia Binotto the present counts, with a GP that could bring second place to Maranello, both in the Drivers’ World Championship with Charles Lelcerc paired with Sergio Perez, and in the Constructors’ Championship, with Ferrari having 19 points ahead of Mercedes. “The thing that matters to him is not to follow the rumors and concentrate on the present and on what we can conquer, also in order not to get distracted: this is what we have to think about”.
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On the question of the change at the top of the team, Binotto concluded with this: “Will I be 100% the boss next year? It’s not up to me to say, but I’m relaxed and have always been open to a constructive dialogue with the top management: we are not yet the best, but we have achieved the goal of being more competitive. Thinking about the beginning of the season, no one would have thought we would have been so fast: we are united, we have worked well and we have been able to achieve certain results. There are problems, but we will solve them and we are focused on that: I think we have an exceptional car in qualifying, but it needs to grow in race pace and we will work on this. Unconditional trust? I don’t follow the speculations, I feel the trust of the president and the CEO and the team it’s very united.”
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