Fred Vasseur is now in his fourth year leading Ferrari, matching the length of Mattia Binotto’s spell before him. For Leo Turrini, the comparison is uncomfortable: both eras produced race victories but no Formula 1 titles, while Ferrari has gone 12 years without producing a car that could genuinely be described as the benchmark for its rivals.
According to Leo Turrini, Ferrari is likely to evaluate Fred Vasseur’s management at the end of the season, with decisions potentially involving both Maranello and Turin. The French manager renewed his contract in the summer of 2025, but the team’s results will inevitably remain central to any assessment of the project.
Leo Turrini compares Fred Vasseur with Mattia Binotto
Leo Turrini placed the two team principals who have led Ferrari across the last eight years side by side and concluded that Fred Vasseur, now in his fourth season, is following a path that looks increasingly similar to the one taken by Mattia Binotto.
“Fred Vasseur, in his fourth year at Ferrari, is following the same pattern as Mattia Binotto, who also had four years. Essentially, the point we are dealing with is that little or almost nothing has changed in terms of results: you have never won, and in these 12 years you have never had a car, a technical product, about which you could say, ‘Ferrari is the benchmark for the rest of the competition.’ So, despite different management structures and different personalities, we have to start from this premise,” Leo Turrini said.
The wider debate over Ferrari’s leadership has intensified in recent weeks, with the pressure surrounding Fred Vasseur increasing as the team’s 2026 results have fallen short of its original ambitions. Questions over the French manager’s position have also grown alongside Christian Horner’s public interest in a possible future with Ferrari.
Ferrari has won races under both managers, but not titles
Leo Turrini’s reference to Ferrari having “never won” should be understood in terms of World Championships rather than individual Grands Prix, because the team has won races under both Mattia Binotto and Fred Vasseur.
Mattia Binotto led Ferrari from 2019 to 2022. His first season included victories at Spa, Monza and Singapore, while the 2022 campaign began with Ferrari as a genuine favourite. Charles Leclerc led the championship during the opening races before the challenge unravelled through a combination of strategic errors and reliability problems.
Fred Vasseur, meanwhile, guided Ferrari to five victories in 2024 and second place in the Constructors’ Championship, finishing just 14 points behind McLaren. In 2026, the team has already celebrated victories with Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona and Charles Leclerc at Silverstone.
Those results nevertheless have not ended Ferrari’s championship drought. The Scuderia’s progress against Mercedes, McLaren, Red Bull and the rest of the field can be followed through the Ferrari vs F1 Rivals statistics.
Ferrari’s title drought points to a deeper problem
The World Championship has remained out of reach throughout both management eras. Ferrari’s last Constructors’ Championship came in 2008, and since then the sporting department has gone through team principals, technical directors and designers from very different backgrounds and schools of thought.
If the people at the top continue to change while the ultimate result remains the same, the problem may not lie exclusively with those individuals. That is the broader question behind the comparison between Fred Vasseur and Mattia Binotto, and one that extends beyond the performance of a single team principal.
Ferrari could review Fred Vasseur’s position at the end of 2026
Fred Vasseur renewed his Ferrari contract during the summer of 2025. However, contracts at Maranello have never necessarily guaranteed complete long-term security when results fall short of expectations.
Leo Turrini expects Ferrari to conduct an assessment at the end of the season, with the decision involving the team’s leadership in Maranello and Exor’s headquarters in Turin.
“I imagine that at the end of this season, in Maranello or Turin, there will be a reflection, because after four years you take stock: four years for Mattia Binotto, four years for Fred Vasseur. They have to understand whether they still believe in this management or not,” Leo Turrini explained.
The scrutiny comes as Ferrari continues to search for greater competitiveness, with the team’s wider technical challenges remaining a central theme throughout the season. ScuderiaFans’ Ferrari technical analysis follows the development and limitations of the current project in detail.
Would another Ferrari team principal really change the outcome?
The comparison with Mattia Binotto is not flattering. The Swiss-born engineer left Ferrari at the end of 2022 after the team finished second in the Constructors’ Championship, a position that would now be welcomed by many inside the current competitive context.
If the same standard were applied again, Fred Vasseur would have little reason to feel completely secure. Yet the larger question remains unresolved: what would Ferrari genuinely gain from appointing a sixth team principal since 2014 if the racing department continues to struggle to produce the benchmark Formula 1 car that has been missing for so long?
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