As the vultures now feast on the proverbial corpse of the Ferrari F1 team’s recently departed team principal, looking back to 2022 and the foundations that set up Mattia Binotto’s fall, it truly was a case of “più le cose cambiano, più restano le stesse” (the more things change, the more they stay the same). This now-tired trope was first published in a French journal, Les Guêpes, the title of which translates to “The Wasps”.
How could matters get so out of hand to warrant a forced resignation from a man who had led Ferrari to second in the 2022 driver’s and constructor’s championships?
Come the season’s opener at Bahrain, Binotto could hardly believe his luck. His cars had emerged second-fastest behind the all-conquering Red Bulls after preseason testing; what’s more, in a maverick-but-misguided interpretation of the new ground-effect rules, the
