As new Ferrari boss, Fred Vasseur will have one of the most difficult jobs in F1 but, as LukeSmithF1 explains, the Frenchman is the right man for it. Opinion:
Ever since reports arose in the days leading up to the Abu Dhabi season finale that Mattia Binotto was on his way out at Maranello, and that Vasseur had been identified as the man to replace him, the winds have been blowing one way.
Vasseur is very much a realist. He won't be going into Ferrari expecting to click his fingers and make it a success from the word go, but there will be a clear sense of how he does and does not want things to work. He summed his approach up very well in an end-of-season interview with Motorsport.com, conducted before the first suggestions of a Ferrari move emerged.
Leclerc batted away a question on Friday in the FIA press conference about who his preference would be, saying:"No, and I won't comment on that." He simply said that the identity of the next team boss was a call for Vigna and Ferrari chairman, John Elkann, to make, but that he anticipated a smooth transition regardless.
As Leclerc said, making things work with Ferrari is a very different challenge to any other team in F1, meaning there is no guarantee of things working well again with Vasseur as they did at ART or Sauber. But it's still encouraging for Ferrari that its young star, the great hope so much of its F1 future looks set to surround, gels well with the new man coming in.Photo by: Jerry Andre /Ferrari will be the third team Vasseur has led in F1.
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