We’re on the highest degree of Ferrari’s motorhome in Budapest, Hungary, and whereas the F1 crew are organising their cameras and repositioning the sofas for our interview, Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur is leaning on the balcony, surveying the paddock containing the engineering vehicles that will probably be below his management for not less than the following couple of years.
Vasseur pens a brand new Ferrari deal
The day earlier than, Ferrari introduced they’d prolonged Vasseur’s keep at F1’s most well-known staff on a multi-year deal (the three-year contract he signed forward of becoming a member of in 2023 expiring on the finish of this season). It dropped at an finish speculation in the Italian press across the time of the Canadian Grand Prix that his place was below risk.
That hypothesis got here regardless of the actual fact Ferrari had been – and nonetheless are – second in the Teams’ Championship, admittedly nicely adrift of McLaren however forward of energy homes Mercedes and Pink Bull. It comes after Ferrari got here nearer to profitable a title than they’ve carried out in additional than a decade by taking the combat within the Groups’ Standings to the wire final yr.
