Ted Kravitz on why he thinks Fred Vasseur is a good team principal appointment for Ferrari

Ted Kravitz on why he thinks Fred Vasseur is a good team principal appointment for Ferrari. Ted Kravitz on Fred Vasseur's new job at Ferrari.

Sky F1’s Ted Kravitz gives his reasons why he thinks Frederic Vasseur is a good team principal appointment for Scuderia Ferrari:

They’ve got a good replacement for Mattia Binotto,” he said of Ferrari’s choice. “He’s a winner in the lower Formula, not yet in F1, but with his own team in F2 and F3, Vasseur has won races and championships. He speaks Italian, he’s been with Alfa Romeo-Sauber of course, a Swiss team with Italian backing, so he speaks the language. And crucially he knows and has a good working relationship with Ferrari’s main championship challenger and star, Charles Leclerc. They worked together at Sauber before, so I think it’s a good solution, a good appointment for Ferrari with Vasseur coming in for Binotto.” But while he clearly feels there is a lot of potential for this move to work, Kravitz stressed that it only has a chance of doing so if the new boss is given the time he needs.

Kravitz added: “The only thing that they have left really is to hope that Frederic Vasseur is left to get on with it. That’s the big question, as to whether the team boss merry-go-round that we have seen at Ferrari in recent years will continue. After all, Vasseur is the fourth Ferrari team boss since Stefano Domenicali’s departure in 2014, and that is quite a lot. Charles Leclerc has talked about how he has a good relationship with Vasseur, and I don’t think he’s throwing any doubt over his previous relationship with Binotto, but to have someone with whom he’s worked and raced together before can only be a good thing.”