In the round-up: Former Ferrari driver Rene Arnoux says the team should have replaced Mattia Binotto as its team principal long ago. The team announced at the end of last month he was standing down after four years in charge.
In brief
Ferrari should have replaced Binotto years ago – Arnoux
Former Ferrari driver Rene Arnoux says the team should have replaced Mattia Binotto as its team principal long ago. The team announced at the end of last month he was standing down after four years in charge.
Ferrari began the 2022 F1 season strongly but slumped as the season went on, missing potential wins due to car failures and errors by their strategists and drivers.
“The mistakes he made for me in Formula 1 are unforgivable,” Arnoux told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I’ve never been on Binotto’s side. Someone who says ‘It will be better next year, it will be better next year’, doesn’t deserve that place.”
Binotto should have been replaced “several years ago”, Arnoux continued, “I’ve said it several times.
“Behaviour like his is intolerable when you’re at the helm of the best team in the world. You may or may not like Jean Todt, but he would never have said: ‘It will be better next year’. He won, and when he won he thought about next year. But there are few Todt and Ron Dennis around.”
Alfa Romeo need “one more step” to challenge teams ahead
Alfa Romeo head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar says that his team are still a step behind their upper-midfield rivals McLaren and Alpine.
The team secured sixth place in the constructors’ championship this season after tying on points with Aston Martin. Asked by RaceFans if he felt the team could have offered more of a challenge to Alpine and McLaren had reliability problems not affected them so much in the early season, Pujolar said “no, I think they’re still a step ahead.
“To be at the level of Alpine or McLaren, we will need one more step,” he continued. “And that’s what we will be working on next year. The areas that we need to improve – the races, starts, lap one and many other areas where you still see some margin – that is where we will be much better prepared for next year.”
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