{"id":370982,"date":"2025-12-25T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:09:10","slug":"ex-ferrari-boss-slams-team-leadership-with-cheeky-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370982\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ferrari boss slams team leadership with cheeky comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Montezemolo has aimed a subtle swipe at the Scuderia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" title=\"Ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a> outfit in his recent comments on the Italian team.\u201cWith the current climate in Maranello, Bologna will win first.&#8221;- Luca Montezemolo<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old, speaking after Italian Serie A side Bologna lost the Supercoppa Italiana final, was asked whether the Emilia-Romagna club or Ferrari would clinch a title first.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo, offering a cheeky response via Quotidiano Sportivo, quipped: \u201cWith the current climate in Maranello, Bologna will win first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For context, Bologna last tasted a Serie A title triumph in 1964. Montezemolo himself was part of Ferrari\u2019s last drivers\u2019 title-winning campaign with Finnish driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/kimi-raikkonen\" title=\"Kimi Raikkonen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kimi Raikkonen<\/a> in 2007. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> team is now enduring its longest title drought in history, having gone without a drivers\u2019 or constructors\u2019 crown from 2008 to 2025.<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/luca-di-montezemolo-68c7da84ad64c.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"luca-di-montezemolo-ferrari-jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Luca Montezemolo &#8211; Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrari outfit also experienced one of its most challenging seasons in recent years, failing to secure a race victory and mustering only seven podium finishes across 24 Grands Prix during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Montezemolo describes Ferrari leadership as soullessEarlier,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/former-ferrari-president-left-angry-we-finally-need-a-good-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Montezemolo described the current Ferrari leadership as soulless and lacking stability.<\/a> The Italian motorsports chief, in his assessment, pointed out the manner of operations surrounding current team principal Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n<p>The words of the former Ferrari team president come off the back of his scathing criticism, in which he called for a better car amid the struggles of the SF-25 challenger during the recently concluded 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up with GPBlog\u2019s Latest Paddock Update<\/p>\n<p>With the post-2025 season finale action and reaction continuing, our paddock update is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p>Follow and subscribe to our channels on YouTube and Spotify to stay up to date with all the happenings as they unfold, following the final Grand Prix of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest episode of our paddock update here \ud83d\udc47<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Montezemolo has aimed a subtle swipe at the Scuderia Ferrari outfit in his recent comments on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,13275,817,35119,826,813,816,18894,846,823,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-370982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charles-leclerc","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-news","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-formula1","16":"tag-frederic-vasseur","17":"tag-kimi-raikkonen","18":"tag-lewis-hamilton","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}