{"id":480345,"date":"2025-10-07T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480345\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:09:10","slug":"has-ferraris-missing-key-ingredient-for-f1-success-finally-been-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480345\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Ferrari’s missing key ingredient for F1 success finally been spotted?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Floundering in arguably its worst season in F1\u2019s ground-effect era, former Benetton chairman Alessandro Benetton believes Ferrari\u2019s biggest problem is that there is not \u201cone\u201d leader capable of inspiring the team to glory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With six races remaining on the F1 2025 calendar, Ferrari is not only winless, but only one driver \u2013 Charles Leclerc \u2013 has even featured on the podium.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t have one in mind for Ferrari\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

While rivals Red Bull and Mercedes have closed the gap to McLaren on the track, Ferrari\u2019s progress has stalled with Lewis Hamilton lamenting a lack of upgrades as the team has turned its full focus to F1 2026 and the all-new cars.<\/p>\n

It meant that while Red Bull claimed two wins on the trot in Monza and Baku, with George Russell winning the Singapore Grand Prix for Mercedes, Ferrari<\/a> has yet to bag a single P1.<\/p>\n

In fact, in the last two races, the team has yet to finish higher than P6 which has dropped the Italian stable to third in the Constructors\u2019 Championship. And even that is now under threat from Red Bull, who\u2019s just eight points down despite being a one-man team with Verstappen.<\/p>\n

Ferrari head-to-head teammate battle<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0F1 2025: Head-to-head race statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n

It had Sky Italia journalist Mara Sangiorgio declaring, \u201csomething is always missing. This is the story, with the shoulders down, of the Ferrari season, now stopped at only five podiums, the worst year of the technical cycle with ground-effect single-seaters. Among other things, all won by Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fault lies with a single-seater born without any strong points, which not even the care of a new suspension has brought back to the right path or up to fighting against rivals who in the meantime have even grown.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if you ask former Benetton chairman Benetton, the problem goes far beyond the car \u2013 it stems from Ferrari\u2019s leadership, or lack thereof.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happens in companies that the desire to move forward stops and growth stops, but there must always be someone who can stand out and make a difference and inspire the team,\u201d he told the Italian broadcaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that during change, companies must identify leaders capable of making a difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have one in mind for Ferrari, but they are important figures who must inspire the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari is currently lead by team principal Fred Vasseur on the ground with John Elkann Ferrari\u2019s chairman.<\/p>\n

Former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is not impressed by what he\u2019s been seeing.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, Ferrari lacks a leader,\u201d he said at the premiere of Luca: Seeing Red.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, there is no leadership, and above all, there is no soul. I don\u2019t know Vasseur, and I\u2019m not criticising him, but I see an isolated man. There have been too many changes, the team needs stability.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, there is a lack of a leader, a strong and determined soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cToday I see a team that, despite all the previous announcements, has not won a single race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Hamilton takes the mickey out of Alonso\u2019s Singapore GP rant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floundering in arguably its worst season in F1\u2019s ground-effect era, former Benetton chairman Alessandro Benetton believes Ferrari\u2019s biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[997,225,12,122477,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-480345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ferrari","9":"tag-home-page","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-popular","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115332813241369860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480345","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=480345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}