Ferrari must 'face a painful truth', Mattia Binotto admits

Ferrari must ‘face a painful truth’, Mattia Binotto admits. Ferrari must 'face a painful truth', Mattia Binotto admits.

After a disappointing qualifying session for the Austrian Grand Prix, qualifying went even worse for Ferrari this weekend. According to Mattia Binotto, the team has to face a painful truth.

During qualifying on Saturday afternoon, painful numbers appeared on the screen for Ferrari. Charles Leclerc didn’t get any further than P11 during Q2 and Sebastian Vettel didn’t get away from last place in Q3. “It’s been a very disappointing day”, Mattia Binotto concludes in the Team Review.

“We have to accept that the stopwatch never lies. In two qualifying sessions, although in different conditions, we haven’t been competitive. Not only against our rivals over the past few years, but also against others, which until recently we were able to keep behind us”, explains the team boss of Ferrari.

Upgrades have no effect
The team has brought many upgrades for the second Grand Prix of the year. “They came ahead of schedule, but they clearly didn’t show their effect on the track. We need to find out why and change that. Our current situation is not worthy of the name Ferrari. We shouldn’t blindly stare at it, but we can’t ignore the facts”, concludes the Italian.

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Comments: 1

Frank Saieva

6 years ago

It’s a brave person who faces such a stark reality and has the temerity to admit that they are failing. But I dare to remind us that this is not new. We have heard how bad things are from Mr Binotto for quite a few years now. And we have heard it from his predecessor and predecessors I might add. And others higher in the organization. And nothing happens except that the performance gets worse with each passing day. With that much money , resources, technical knowledge and skills (?) Ferrari keeps going backward. Clearly last years engine modifications were nothing more than cheating ? It appears to us mere mortal outsiders that the problem is much deeper than what Mr Binotto alludes to. I think the fish is smelling of rot…. that is what you need to stare at Mr Binotto. Get the bloody thing right now. It’s an internal combustion engine. Mercedes, Renault and Honda are getting it right. Ferrari haven’t got it right in over 8 years now and when there is the odd occasion that you do, something else turns into a mess

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