Sky Sports Italia – an important, late appointment to Ferrari. An important, late appointment to Ferrari.

The Italian media informed a few weeks ago that Scuderia Ferrari were eying up ex-team boss Stefano Domenicali to rejoin the squad and assist the recently appointed Mattia Binotto. Further confirmation of this rumour is now coming from Sky Sports Italia who yesterday reported that changes at the Maranello team have not yet been finalized ahead of the 2019 Formula 1 season.

Sky Sports Italia report that they have an inside informant who can confirm that the Prancing Horse are imminently appointing “an important and experienced person” to assist Team Principal Mattia Binotto due to the strains that are already exceeding the ones of the last two years as a senior figure on the technical side of Ferrari. Obviously, Binotto has now taken on the role of team boss, replacing Maurizio Arrivabene a few weeks ago: “Binotto is a person with great skills” says Sky Sports source – “Both on the technical front and on the organizational side. He knows very well that the amount of work that awaits him is greater than the already demanding one he has had to face in the last two seasons, and he will not leave anything to chance.” – the report adds.

Rumours broke in the news at the beginning of January linking the former team boss back to Maranello. Before too long, several Italian publications such as Autosprint, Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica then started to claim that there is “an imminent return” of the current Lamborghini managing director Stefano Domenicali to Ferrari. The Sky Sports source continues by adding that the new appointment will arrive very soon and that it would be “a figure of great weight and experience will arriving. “

“Mattia Binotto needs the tranquility to manage the team as a whole, and also to be able to deal with the complicated discussions underway with FIA and Liberty Media for the definition of the regulations 2021. An important task, which will take time and work “. continues the source – “I believe that a technician will be able to allow Mattia to delegate the job without worries, an experienced trustworthy person, able to be immediately operational. I have an idea of who … but I stop here.” – Sky Sports Italia concluded.