Vasseur now only getting started after initially evaluating team

Vasseur, the former boss of the Alfa Romeo F1 team and Sauber CEO, started work at the helm of the Scuderia in January of this year following the winter resignation of the under-fire Mattia Binotto.

But ahead of a home race for Ferrari this weekend at Imola, the team currently occupies fourth in the constructors’ championship. It led rival Red Bull going into last year’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Unreliability, strategic errors and de-tuning the turbos for the latter…