{"id":194681,"date":"2025-06-18T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194681\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:07:09","slug":"fred-vasseur-issues-time-verdict-in-ferrari-talk-as-f1-boss-makes-clear-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/194681\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Vasseur issues ‘time’ verdict in Ferrari talk as F1 boss makes clear demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur says he has \u201ctime\u201d to resolve his future at Ferrari amidst a barrage of rumours that his days could be numbered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following on from a report, one that PlanetF1.com understands to be accurate, that Ferrari approached Christian Horner over the team principal job, there has been a lot of speculation about the Frenchman\u2019s future in the Italian media.<\/p>\n

Fred Vasseur calls for time<\/p>\n

Vasseur took up the role of Ferrari team principal in January 2023, replacing Mattia Binotto after the Italian handed in his resignation following a disappointing 2022 season. <\/p>\n

It was speculated at the time that Binotto had two options: fall on his sword or be sacked. He chose the former.<\/p>\n

Vasseur is now facing similar rumours.<\/p>\n

Although under his leadership, Ferrari were the only team aside from Red Bull to win a race in his first campaign, and by the end of 2024 had arguably the fastest car on the grid, they\u2019ve lost momentum this season.<\/p>\n

Marrying 2024\u2019s form with the signing of seven-time F1 World Lewis Hamilton, all the talk in pre-season was about Ferrari.<\/p>\n

But as hype faded to expectation, and expectation to wishes, and wishes to the cold, hard truth of reality, Ferrari can at best fight for P2 in the Constructors\u2019 Championship ahead of Mercedes and Red Bull while a podium in the Drivers\u2019 standings is a long shot.<\/p>\n

Team boss Vasseur has gone from being billed as the next Frenchman to carry Ferrari to glory, doing a Jean Todt if you will, to the next team boss with his head on the chopping block with one report claiming he had three races \u2013 Canada, Austria and Briton \u2013 to save his job.<\/p>\n

According to Corriere dello Sera, Vasseur\u2019s \u2018actions have been put under scrutiny by top management. The French boss has been asked to account for the unsatisfactory performance, his position is no longer so firm, he is accused of knowing little about the internal environment.\u2019<\/p>\n

It has the Italian publication speculating that Antonello Coletta<\/a>, the man in charge of Ferrari\u2019s hypercar programme, could be in line for the job.<\/p>\n

Vasseur, having already laid into the media in Montreal about the rumours, reiterated his anger over the speculation to the Italian media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to waste time on it,\u201d Vasseur told Sky Italia<\/strong>. \u201cJournalists aren\u2019t the ones who decide who we replace. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just bad for the team\u2019s concentration level and the whole environment. Doing it like this just throws everyone into the mud.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attacks on me aren\u2019t a problem, I get angry when they attack the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also not fazed about speculation that Ferrari won\u2019t sack him,<\/a> they just won\u2019t renew his contract which is up at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old brushed that aside, saying: \u201cWe still have time to discuss it. There\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such is the speculation about Vasseur\u2019s position, even F1 CEO and former Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has weig<\/p>\n

He told France\u2019s L\u2019Equipe: \u201cHe is doing a great job and he must remain focused and strong on his objective. He must disconnect from this external pressure and save all of his energy to continue his work.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him, and now I tell you officially \u2013 I believe in him. He must not fall into the trap of weakening in the face of these attacks, because there are always some. <\/p>\n

\u201cLet him work in peace \u2013 that\u2019s how Ferrari will return to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mercedes\u2019 race win and double podium in Montreal dropped Ferrari to third in the Constructors\u2019 Championship where they are on 183 to Mercedes\u2019 199 with Red Bull 21 points off the podium.<\/p>\n

Read next: Alonso sends warning over \u2018struggling\u2019 Lewis Hamilton as Ferrari pressure mounts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur says he has \u201ctime\u201d to resolve his future at Ferrari amidst a barrage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,997,707,4200,7181,225,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-194681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-ferrari","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-fred-vasseur","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114704996326881007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}