{"id":196945,"date":"2025-06-19T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196945\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:54:09","slug":"controversial-f1-figure-linked-to-ferrari-team-boss-role-in-get-things-done-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196945\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial F1 figure linked to Ferrari team boss role in ‘get things done’ verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amidst Alpine\u2019s upheaval and Ferrari\u2019s troubles, Italy\u2019s president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa has proposed Flavio Briatore replace Fred Vasseur as Ferrari\u2019s team principal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, he concedes, Ferrari need more than just a \u201cgreat manager\u201d to turn their fortunes around.<\/p>\n

Flavio Briatore to Ferrari?<\/p>\n

Italy\u2019s national Formula 1 team, Ferrari, is having a tough start to the F1 2025 season despite high expectations in the build-up.<\/p>\n

After Red Bull annihilated the competition in 2023 where Ferrari<\/a> were the only team to sneak in a win as the Milton Keynes squad dominated with 21 wins in 22 races, the Scuderia built on that last season with five Grand Prix wins and a runner-up result in the Constructors\u2019 Championship.<\/p>\n

They boosted, or so the headlines claim, their prospects of a first Drivers\u2019 Championship title since Kimi Raikkonen\u2019s 2007 success with the signing of seven-time F1 World Champion, Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

But instead of champagne celebrations and victory flags being flown at the team\u2019s Maranello headquarters, Ferrari are facing questions about where it went wrong.<\/p>\n

From pointing fingers at Ferrari\u2019s decision to change the car\u2019s design philosophy, despite F1 2025 marking the final season under the current regulations, to debates about Hamilton\u2019s struggles at Ferrari, the buck has ultimately stopped at team boss Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n

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Following a report in Germany that Ferrari had approached Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, one that PlanetF1.com understands to be accurate, fresh speculation about Vasseur\u2019s future emerged in the build-up to the Canadian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

According to Corriere della 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

La Gazzetta dello Sport went as far as to put a timeline on Ferrari\u2019s decision, claiming Vasseur had had three races to turn the tide.<\/p>\n

Both publications speculated that Antonello Coletta, the man in charge of Ferrari\u2019s hypercar programme, could be in line for the job. The Italian had reportedly been offered the job in the past but chose to focus on WEC, inspiring Ferrari to a hat-trick of 24 Hours of Le Mans wins.<\/p>\n

A new name has now entered the running, or at least he\u2019s been suggested by Italy\u2019s president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, as someone who could get the job done for Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Flavio Briatore.<\/p>\n

The controversial Italian returned to the Formula 1 paddock last year when the former championship-winning Renault team boss was announced as an Alpine executive director.<\/p>\n

However, a year into his role, Alpine have undergone a fair amount of changes, including the decision to axe their F1 2026 engine project to become a Mercedes customer team, saying goodbye to team principal Oliver Oakes, and the more recent announcement that Renault CEO Luca de Meo had resigned.<\/p>\n

Could Briatore to Ferrari be the next shock announcement?<\/p>\n

\u201cFlavio is a dear friend of mine, whatever he has done he has always done very, very well,\u201d La Russa told La Politica nel Pallone<\/strong>, a Rai Radio 1 program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think, however, that a great manager would be enough to manage Ferrari, at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe \u2013 I don\u2019t deal much with engines, unlike my son \u2013 that it is a question of going much deeper than just changing the manager who leads the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlavio would be a resource that could give a major shake-up, he is capable not only of growling but also of getting things done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Briatore, though, made it clear during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend that he won\u2019t be the next departure.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing, absolutely nothing,\u201d Briatore told Reuters<\/strong>. \u201cNothing changed for me, not for me or the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue exactly as planned. In Formula 1, stability comes from vision and execution. We have a plan. Luca supported that plan. His departure won\u2019t stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s business as usual. We\u2019re not going backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vasseur also downplayed the rumours that his days could be numbered, the Frenchman lashing out at the claims.<\/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

Ferrari are third in the Constructors\u2019 Championship<\/a> on 183 points, 16 behind Mercedes in the battle to finish runner-up to McLaren in the F1 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Read next: Nico Rosberg shares new Ferrari \u2018rumour\u2019 with major change under consideration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amidst Alpine\u2019s upheaval and Ferrari\u2019s troubles, Italy\u2019s president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa has proposed Flavio Briatore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,997,707,4200,225,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-196945","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-home-page","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114709663808028635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196945","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=196945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}