The words of the Austrian manager
The only Friday in which the Ferrari He had started the race weekend so well in addition to what was recorded yesterday in Silverstone had been that of Melbourne, the last hours of ‘illusion’ for the Maranello team before having to deal with the problems relating to the height from the ground and the correct heating of the tires especially in qualifying. Among the top teams, Ferrari is the only one who has not yet won in this 2025 and this lack of competitiveness that emerged so far has led to question Frederic Vasseur, the Team Principal della Rossa which is expiring.
Toto wolff He defended his colleague and friend in the post-gara press conference in Austria and reiterated that he reiterated that in Vasseur it has to be given time in an interview granted to the newspaper Printing: “If it were for me, I would let it work and go on, I would establish clear goals for the team and then I would support it to the best of my possibilities. This is my vision from the outside, I have known Fred for 25 years and I know what is capable of reaching, I am sure that it can do it with that team if the authority is given. He should get his skin a little thicker. It is not football, where sometimes it is enough to change a coach. Years, however it seems that lately the F1 teams have the swivel doors, Horner and I have remained the only ‘dinosaurs’ “.
Recently Christian Horner has admitted to having received John Elkann in the past to leave his creature in Milton Keanes to step towards Maranello taking the rudder of the most prestigious stable of the starting grid. Toto Wolff explained that for him there is a problem of ‘incompatibility’ upstream of any hypothetical negotiation relating to his future in Ferrari: “For me the discussion is different, I have never been an employee and the Team Principal is an employee at Ferrari. I am an entrepreneur, I own a third of the Mercedes team, I represent this fantastic brand “. In fact, Wolff divides the team shares with the Daimler and Ineos group. Recently the Austrian manager has just collected a dividend of over 50 million dollars thanks to the excellent ‘exercise’ of the budget 2024.
