While Ferrari didn't achieve the ultimate goal of winning the F1 titles in 2022, Mattia Binotto's exit means his successor will face an impossible target next year. NobleF1 explains:
However much Binotto became an easy target for the critics amid Ferrari's reliability and strategy errors that grabbed the headlines in 2022, it was his many under-the-radar qualities that were key to having got the squad back to the front in the first place.
It will take any new team boss who comes in many months to get a grip of Ferrari's design direction, structure and cost-cap spending plan. And, by the time they get up to speed with things, the 2023 title battle could be all but lost already.Getting calls wrong in the early stages of next year could cost immediate laptime if the team ends up going down the wrong path, and spending restrictions mean little opportunity for U-turns.
Binotto did much to improve things and it is little wonder then that sources suggest the mood in Maranello now has sunk deeply as the reality of losing him hits home. Don't rule out other resignations in the weeks to come.This is not to say that Binotto was not without his weaknesses and did not make mistakes.
To the outside, he often appeared calm and polite when it came to addressing team mistakes; as he moved to protect those working underneath him. But behind the scenes, he was a hard taskmaster. Binotto was also perhaps too nice at times in not criticising his squad when things went wrong, and did sometimes lose out when speaking in his non-native tongue.
"And more than that, I think for me, somehow [I needed to] try to keep the team focused and concentrated on the job. Vigna recently remarked in an interview with CNBC that he was not willing to accept finishing runner-up. It is something that, when going up against the might of Red Bull and Mercedes in the cost cap era, is simply not going to happen.
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