{"id":58300,"date":"2025-08-10T03:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:29:17","slug":"toto-wolff-delivers-really-stupid-verdict-over-key-ferrari-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58300\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff delivers ‘really stupid’ verdict over key Ferrari decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toto Wolff has stated it would have been “really stupid” for Ferrari to have done anything other than extend the contract of team principal Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n

The Maranello-based squad penned the Frenchman to a multi-year extension to his existing deal<\/a> between the Belgian and Hungarian grands prix, a move fully backed by his Mercedes counterpart.<\/p>\n

Vasseur succeeded Mattia Binotto at the helm of the Scuderia for the 2023 F1 season but has thus far been unable to return the Prancing Horse to its former glory.<\/p>\n

Last year, Ferrari came painfully close to securing its first title since 2008, but ultimately fell 14 points short of eventual constructors’ champions McLaren.<\/p>\n

That, coupled with the arrival of Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes, saw expectations reach a new high heading into the current campaign.<\/p>\n

However, whilst its Woking-based rival has found new gear, Ferrari’s performance has plateaued, and the seven-time F1 drivers’ champion has underwhelmed.<\/p>\n

That has heaped the pressure on Vasseur, despite the Scuderia still sitting second in the standings, to the point that there was widespread speculation he could be fired.<\/p>\n

One rumour suggested he could be replaced by now-departed Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.<\/p>\n

During that difficult period, Wolff was forthright in his stance on Vasseur<\/a>, praising him and imploring Ferrari to give him more time.<\/p>\n

Now that his future has been secured, the Austrian has expanded on his prior remarks, calling having a figure like Vasseur a “blessing” and reiterating how long and arduous it can be to create a winning team in F1.<\/p>\n

“Any other choice would have been really stupid,” the 53-year-old said to La Gazzetta dello Sport on the call to hand Vasseur a new deal.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve known Fred since we were in our early twenties, and I know his value as a motorsport man; I know his entrepreneurial vision and his strength.<\/p>\n

“Having someone like him in your team is a blessing, and you shouldn\u2019t forget how much time it takes in Formula 1 to build a successful project.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff has stated it would have been “really stupid” for Ferrari to have done anything other than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-58300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}