F1: Ferrari closes ranks for the future

Maranello’s team renewed Frédéric Vasseur’s contract as director. The Frenchman signed a multiannual bond.

With Christian Horner updating his LinkedIn as unemployed, more than one pointed to the possible landing of English in Ferrari. With 20 years of experience in the spine as director of Red Bull and father of eight pilot titles and six builders, Geri Halliwell’s husband is a difficult convit to despise. Especially if at the beginning of 2025 from the base of the Italian team they made a survey on Horner. In the middle was Frédéric Vasseur, the Frenchman who assumed the position of director of the Scuderia in 2022 and whose contract ended at the end of this year.

Maranello’s team comes from 2024 in which he was runner -up behind McLaren and achieved five victories. Everyone imagined in Italy that the fight for the 1st of 2025 would be possible. Nothing is further from reality. Ferrari engineers opted for great reconfiguration in the SF-25 and there, wandering, without successes and with Lewis Hamilton, their star hiring, quite worried. However, In La Rossa they decided to close ranks with Vasseur (very dear to Hamilton, quite the opposite of Horner) and in Hungary, headquarters of the World Cup date, the multiannual renewal of the boss was announced.

“We want to recognize what has been built and commit to what remains to be achieved,” said Benedetto Vigna, CEO of Ferrari. He added: “It reflects our confidence in Fred’s leadership, a confidence based on a shared ambition, mutual expectations and a clear responsibility.”

Vasseur will be thus at the head of Ferrari in the arrival of the new technical regulations that will enter into force in 2026 and that will change the engines and cars. The red cars will depend on the new era will depend on how multiannual will end up being the French contract.