{"id":598041,"date":"2026-04-12T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:01:08","slug":"mattia-binotto-reflects-on-audis-biggest-challenge-as-he-assesses-the-teams-journey-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598041\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattia Binotto reflects on Audi&#8217;s &#8216;biggest challenge&#8217; as he assesses the team&#8217;s journey so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">When Mattia Binotto took over the reins at Sauber to continue the Swiss team&#8217;s journey to become Audi&#8217;s works factory team he knew the path to the top was steep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiYmlub3R0b19saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vbGF0ZXN0L3RhZ3MvbWF0dGlhLWJpbm90dG8uN2o2QmlPNmdzU2VSS3BGSkVIM0dNWCIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/tags\/mattia-binotto.7j6BiO6gsSeRKpFJEH3GMX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binotto<\/a> had previously spent more than three decades at <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiZmVycmFyaV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vdGVhbXMvZmVycmFyaSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/teams\/ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a>, working his way up to first lead their engine department, then run the operation as Team Principal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">During that period, he saw <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoibWljaGFlbF9zY2h1bWFjaGVyX2xpbmtfY2xpY2tlZCIsImNsaWNrVGV4dCI6dHJ1ZSwicGF0aCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcm11bGExLmNvbS9lbi9pbmZvcm1hdGlvbi9kcml2ZXJzLWhhbGwtb2YtZmFtZS1taWNoYWVsLXNjaHVtYWNoZXIuN0tkWDVuSmxURzU1dlI1SlFTYloyMSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/information\/drivers-hall-of-fame-michael-schumacher.7KdX5nJlTG55vR5JQSbZ21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Schumacher<\/a> win five World Championships on the bounce \u2013 but that run only came after a wait of 21 years since the last title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Mattia Binotto took over the reins at Sauber to continue the Swiss team&#8217;s journey to become Audi&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-598041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598041","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=598041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}