Ferrari: Frederic Vasseur, ex-Alfa Romeo boss, is new team principal

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Frederic Vasseur volition go the squad main of Ferrari astatine the commencement of 2023.

The 54-year-old Frenchman, who has been managing manager of Alfa Romeo/Sauber since 2017, replaces Mattia Binotto, who Ferrari said resigned past month.

Vasseur volition beryllium charged with turning the Italian squad into 1 susceptible of winning the satellite championship.

In 2022 Ferrari squandered a car that started the twelvemonth arsenic the fastest due to the fact that of operational and reliability issues.

Ferrari main enforcement serviceman Benedetto Vigna said: "Throughout his career, Fred has successfully combined his method strengths arsenic a trained technologist with a accordant quality to bring retired the champion successful his drivers and teams.

"This attack and his enactment are what we request to propulsion Ferrari guardant with renewed energy."

Vasseur, who volition articulation Ferrari connected 9 January, said helium was "delighted and honoured" to instrumentality connected the enactment of Ferrari.

"As idiosyncratic who has held a lifelong passionateness for motorsport, Ferrari has ever represented the precise pinnacle of the racing satellite to me," helium said.

"I look guardant to moving with the talented and genuinely passionate squad successful Maranello to honour the past and practice of the Scuderia and present for our tifosi astir the world."

A alteration successful attack

Vasseur's assignment marks a cleanable interruption from Ferrari's strategy of choosing squad principals implicit the past decennary and a half.

Since Jean Todt, who masterminded the ascendant Michael Schumacher era, near astatine the extremity of 2007, Ferrari has looked from wrong for the leaders of their F1 operations.

Todt's replacement Stefano Domenicali was promoted from sporting manager and erstwhile helium near successful 2014, the caller antheral was Marco Mattiacci, who was caput of Ferrari North America.

Mattiacci lasted conscionable 9 months earlier being replaced by Maurizio Arrivabene, who was a elder enforcement for the team's rubric sponsor Philip Morris and has been adjacent to the team's operations for 20 years.

Arrivabene was replaced astatine the extremity of 2018 - pursuing a play with similarities to 2022, erstwhile squad mistakes, coupled with operator errors from Sebastian Vettel torpedoed their rubric situation - by long-time worker Binotto.

He is an technologist who had worked his mode up the ranks to go the archetypal brag of the motor section and past method manager of some chassis and motor organisations.

In Vasseur, Ferrari person chosen a antheral steeped successful motorsport absorption who, on with his stints arsenic squad brag astatine 2 antithetic F1 outfits, has besides enjoyed occurrence successful the inferior categories with the ART team.

Vasseur besides has a adjacent narration with Ferrari's pb operator Charles Leclerc, whose increasing frustrations with the mode the squad was operating successful 2022 were transparent arsenic his rubric situation fell apart.

Vasseur ran Leclerc successful GP3 successful 2016 and Formula 2 successful 2017, winning the rubric successful some seasons.

Last week, Leclerc spoke of his admiration for Vasseur portion accepting his trophy for 2nd spot successful the title astatine the FIA Gala successful Bologna.

He said: "Ferrari is simply a precise antithetic squad to immoderate different teams. I tin lone remark connected my acquisition with Fred, which has been good.

"I worked with him from the inferior categories, helium has believed successful maine and we person ever had a bully relationship. This should not power the decisions. He has ever been precise straightforward and precise honest, which is thing I liked."

Vasseur's cardinal work volition beryllium to guarantee Ferrari's contention operations are improved truthful the squad tin debar the benignant of strategical errors that rocked Leclerc's 2022 season.

Glaring mistakes connected strategy deprived him of apt wins successful Monaco, astatine Silverstone and successful Hungary successful 2022.

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