A statement from Ferrari on Tuesday 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果🌌历史:confirmed the 53-year-old will leave the team ✃on December 31 after a three-year reign. While a successor was not named, Ferrari said the process to identify a replacement is underway and is expected to be finalised “in the new year”. 

Ferrari now faces the task of finding a suitable candidate who is not only available, but also willing, to head F1’s most famous organisation, something which has been considered a poisoned chalꦫice - rather than a privilege - in recent times. 

So, who could become Feꦆrrari’s fourth team principal in eight years?&nﷺbsp;

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Frederic Vasseur 

Current boss of the Ferrari-linked Alfa Romeo, Frederic Vasseur, has been widely tipped🗹 as the favourite to succeed Binotto at Marane🌼llo. 

Through ꦫhis work at Renault and Alfa Romeo, Vasseur has earned a respected reputa꧅tion for being an effective and no-nonsense team leader.

The Frenchman has never before had a job with the kind of s꧒takes that come with leading Ferrari, but is regarded as the ideal replacement for Binotto to bring some much-needed stability to the Italian outfit. 

Vasseur’s strong relationship with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, who he managed during the Monegasque’s meteoric rise through the junior categories - and in his rookie F1 season aℱt Sauber - is considered to be a real asset. 

Rღelations between Leclerc and Binotto are believed to have soured amid a catalogue of strategic and reliability errors during Ferrari’s failed 2022 title bid, even to the extent Leclerc’s camp were reportedly pushing for a change of guard. 

Ferrari are desperate to keep Leclerc on side and ward off potential interest from Mercedes, who will be starting to think about168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton’s long-term successor. 

Ferrari didn’t do too badly the last time they had a Fren꧙ch team boss…

Andeas Seidl

Like Vasseur, another no-nonsౠense manager can be found in Andreas Seidl. 

Seidl does not like to get involved in F1 politicking, at least not publicly, and has impressed during his relatively short tenure at McLaren, guiding the team’s revival fro꧙m the doldrums of their mid-to-late 2010s slump.

With Ferrari eyeing escꦓape from a similar period of stagnation to end their long wait for F1🔜 silverware, could Seidl provide the answer the team have been looking for?

The Germa𓆉n is thought to be high on Ferrari’s list of targets, thoug💟h reports in Italy suggest an approach has already proven unsuccessful. 

Christian Horner 

Another obvious option for Ferrari to consider would be Red Bull team principal 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Christian Horner. 

After years of struggles in the V6 hybrid era, Red Bull, under Horner’s leadership, successfully broke✃ Mercedes and Hamilton’s unchallenged run of F1 supremacy in 2021, and have gone on to win back-to-back drivers’ world titles, as well as their first constructors’ championship since 2013. 

Horner was among the many respected figures in the F1 paddock that Ferrari reportedly spoke to about b༺ecoming their new team principal. However, according to , he rejected the chance. 

Horner is understood to remaiꦆn fully focused and committed to Red Bull’s project, with his influence at Milton Keynes only likely to expand following the passing of founder Dietrich Mateschitz. 

Ross Brawn

A wildcard move could see 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ferrari try to convince R𒀰oss Bra🌳wn to remain in F1 and return to the place he enjoy🥃ed some of his greatest success. 

Brawn was an integral part of Ferrari and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Michael Schumacher’s dominance of F1 as the team’s former technical director, before going on to spearhead Brawn GP’s double tℱitle-winning campaign in 2009 and later holding a frontline🐈 role at Mercedes. 

Re-hiring Brawn would certainly be a nostalgic move from Ferrari, but they would have to do some serious headᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ-turningꦚ given Brawn has effectively ruled himself out of another job after retiring from his F1 management role. 

“I’ve loved almost every minute of my 46-year career and I’ve been fortunate to have worked with 𒀰many great teams, great drivers and great people,” Brawn wrote in h♛is final column for the official F1 website. “I wouldn’t have changed a thing.

“I will now watch F1 from my sofa, cheeri🎶ng and cursing as an F1 fan, pleased that the sport is in a𒆙 fantastic place and has such a fantastic future.”

A hire from within? 

If Ferrari were unable to find 🐠a suitable replacement, or be unsuccessful in their attempts to entice one from a rival team, the Scud♎eria could always look closer to home. 

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna is set to oversee the F1 team while the search for a successor is ongoing, but could he end up taking u🌺p the role on a permanent⛦ basis? 

Current Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies has deputised for Binotto on several occasions when the latter has missed a grand prix. He could move into the rolꦦe full-time if Ferrari opted to promote from within.&nbs🔯p;

Antonello Coletta, who is the head of Ferrari’s Sports and GT operation, is🔯 also said to be an option being considered for the top ranking position at the F1 team.