Horner Calls Out Overconfident Binotto

Ferrari have come under some criticism following the way in which they let their race implode in Hungary. The fact that they were aiming for no less than scoring a 1-2 prior to the race has been highlighted as well. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has done the same while speaking to Motorsport
 
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Horner Calls Out Overconfident Binotto
 
Horner started off by revealing if he wants a closer battle for the championship with Ferrari
 
“There is not an ounce in me that wishes that. Last year it was a tough battle that lasted 22 Grands Prix. I'd rather not do that again”
 
He then gave his thoughts on Binotto being confident of a 1-2 before the Hungarian GP
 
“Even if we had won by a lap, I would have been careful”
 
He signed off by explaining why
 
“I would never say we're going to finish first and second in the next race. It's more about the way we race. We focus on the here and now and see the race as it comes”
 
 
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Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes' Trackside Engineering Director, explained that “the only way to do the one stop [in Hungary] was to go on a medium and a hard tyre” [Team Debrief]
 
“On both of those stints you'd need quite a lot of management to get to the finish”
 
“We tried the hards on Friday and it didn't have good grip”
 
Former F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen feels that “even when [Red Bull] hit problems they don’t panic. [They] just focus on recovering quickly” [Unibet]
 
“Max’s win was very impressive because he had to start 10th and work his way through the traffic”
 
“But he did everything he needed to and the team gave him the right strategy to take the win”
 
Retired F1 driver turned pundit Martin Brundle thinks that “the Ferrari team keep it tight and support each other on these reasonably frequent errors of late”
 
“But, however you paint it they somehow navigated a fast car from second and third on the grid to finish fourth and sixth [in Hungary]” [Sky F1]
 
Haas driver Kevin Magnussen explained that he was “a bit out of sequence with the early damage and there was a lot of tyre degradation and pit stops, which didn’t make it easy” [F1]
 
“It’s been a tricky weekend for us, but it has been a good learning weekend, continuing to understand the strengths and the weaknesses of the new package”
 
 
Is Mattia Binotto’s approach hurting the team?

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[Cynsham]

Binotto's approach is objectively hurting the team. It's not just Binotto, but the culture of Ferrari as a whole. They refuse to admit or acknowledge that they even made a mistake, they've just got their heads shoved in the sand. It's no wonder they haven't won a championship since 07-08 with this level of dysfunction.

[pedrolopespereira]

Not only overconfident, also has no courage to admit the problems on the team at the moment and have the guts to make changes

[karthikpenumetch]

Binotto is just delusional at this point

[jean-jacqueslavigne]

Racing is also about taking your eyes out off the computer screens and actually feeling the race. Horner is first and foremost a racer, he feels how a race is going. In racing, engineering will take you that far, but without sheer racing instinct against one who has it, races get lost.

[JPT-cu]

Fun fact: you never hear radio messages from RBR telling drivers they're on "plan B" or even "plan D". RBR manages a race dynamically, where FER has a rigid race plan ahead of the start. It may look like an insignificant detail, but I believe it is quite telling.

[gasoowannab]

I think this is blown out of proportion. Remember when Mattia was asked about the championship earlier this year? Weirdly he said he wasn’t focused on that even though they were leading at the time. Now I realize it was a way for him to not promise the championship while making errors on their end. They can say “hey never said we would win the championship”. Ferrari is a joke

[oysteinsoreide]

The first point to solve issues is to admit to yourself that you have an issue. So that is what Ferrari should start doing. Charles Leclerc was totally right on the radio right after he passed the checkered flag: "That is why I wanted to hold on to the mediums longer".... Everyone knew that the hard tires sucked at the point when Ferrari put them on Charles Leclercs car. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that he struggled with them.

[furyofgungnir]

Of all things Max Verstappen you have to admit he really personifies in the moment perfectly. It is no wonder that he and Red Bull work so well together. We all know the off track antics are part of getting into the heads of the competition. On race day the entire team is focused on lap by lap structure, and strategy to complete the race with the best results possible.

[LuisRdzG]

Ferrari is like Hamilton's comments that his team "never" makes mistakes... which you have plenty to point out. Some are very ridiculous like Bahrein 2020. Ferrari has always believed that they are perfect because of the brand. Marketing shit. But in the actual F1, they have been the clown of the sport for over a decade.

[nobody-wkej]

Until Ferrari can confront itself, nothing changes. Arrogance.

[oysteinsoreide]

Binotto should actually start to admit that they did mistakes. By not admitting anything he looks less reliable. Because it is obvious that they did a mistake.

[nicholashe]

This goes way way back, past current Ferrari. I don’t have a source, but I read somewhere that part of why Prost left Ferrari is because he began to speak bad of the team and was ousted. Enzo himself claimed that aero was for cars without good engines. That culture founded the company and will continue to persist.

[mrj]

Why does Martin brundle seemingly every week call for F1 to bring in Kevin Magnuson with a little bit of wing damage.
Every single time this occurs he is openly lobbying for F1 to " step in and protect the drivers " .
At least 2 weeks this year this has happened.
Both times it was Brundle the 0 time F1 race winner complaining about it.

[PJMontoya]

Ferrari has made a fantastic car under Binotto’s command. Both drivers also do well, usually. He just needs to poach some high level strategists from other teams to complete to package.

[alanjm]

A team with winning cars and drivers is constantly losing due to mismanagement. How can that not hurt the team?

[DaSpaceJammer]

Binotto, Arrivabene, it’s never just one person it’s just the way the organization has been run as a whole since the beginning. Their stigma and smugness of being Ferrari seems to make them willfully blind in a lot of situations. They’ll never beat RB & Merc like that. They messed up in 2017 & 2018 also but to a much lesser extent to what’s taking place this year.

[personwomanmancameratv]

i think binotto is secretly paid by redbull because there is no chance somebody who climbed his way to an f1 team lead (that's a dream job for 99.99% out of us), who has a championship winning car and driver and who saw in budapest that there was no hard on the pirelli suggestions for tire strategies and who saw that everybody who had a hard tire sturggled bringing the tires to ideal temperture STILL put that tire on charles car . and then after he saw max and lewis joke about his strategy still went on tv and said that it wasn't a mistake

[marion]

Say what you want about Horner especially his DTS persona but IMO he's the most sensible Team Principal in the grid. Binotto is incompetent and delusional, while Toto is a drama queen and has disgustingly dirty politics.

[wraitheful]

The reality of the situation is that the Ferrari bosses like Mattia, love Carlos and dislike Leclerc.
They will admit nothing and will not take criticism from anyone unless it is their own and at a time of their choosing.
This is a cultural thing that never goes away; it can only be momentarily suppressed if the head of Ferrari is capable of suppressing the Elkann’s & Agnelli’s and Piero.
They’re not much on that kind of stuff and they like having their hands in at least until they’re forced to remove them every 15 years or so.
The world would agree: now is a good time for that.