Ferrari should be 'protagonists, not extras’, says disappointed ex-chairman Luca di Montezemolo
Di Montezemolo, who oversaw Ferrari and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher’s period of F1 domination in the early 2000s, stepped down from his long-time role amid a poor 2014 s🅷eason.
Ferrari last won a world championship in 2008, while168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Raikkonen remains the last driver to win a drivers’ world title for F1’s most famo✅us team, in 2007.
The team threatened to challenge Red Bull last year but saw their title bid collapse in spectacular fashion mid-season, leaving168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen t🧸o cruise to the championship. Ferrari have fallen even further adrift in 2023.
Di Montezemolo says he expected more🤪 from Ferrari in the decade that has passed si♏nce his departure.
“As a fan I dream of a Ferrari no🎐t that always wins, but that fights for the title until the last🅷 race,” he told .
“As in 1997, 1998, 1999๊, 2008, 2010, 2012. You can lose, but as p༒rotagonists, not as extras.”
The Italian believes Ferrari need to tie down168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc for as long as p🍒ossible but says the Maranello outfit’s problem is not the♈ir drivers.
“He’s good and I don’t think there are free riders stronger than him,” Di Monteze🎃molo said of Leclerc.
“But in the present who drives the red is the least of the problems. As presiden🐎t I had built a dream team, from Schumi to [Jean] Todt, from [Ross] Brawn to [Rory] Byrne.”
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