theres so much talk these days about serious measures LdM will take...that he gave an ultimatum till Spain, that Dom will be sacked, etc....
its 7 years since they last got a wdc. who? ferrari...with almost limitless budget, a team all the best people in the industry want to work for!
i'm afraid the problem must be really complicated, i mean, they were all blah blah this winter and now they are so far behind i dont think a sacked Dom will be the solution to the problem..let alone bringing Briatore back
Somehow I just dont see Briatore as creditable replacement. It has been a while since he's been in F1 and the game has changed. I dont even know if he would actually like to come back. Ross Brawn would be a more creditable replacement with more recent success, but he is in retirement, so who knows.
Ferrari has other problems, all of the new personal that joined the team like Allison for example said that Ferrari's tools are heavily out of date. They are working on it but all of these small things take time. We'll see, the trouble at Ferrari has been brewing for a while now this was their chance to move forward but they are still moving backwards. So many heads have already rolled, so I guess they will be looking for their latest scapegoat.
quote Ferrari, what we can learn from the Costa affair
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Translated by our foreign correspondent, Claudio Acquista
Leo Turrini
Formula1 April 10, 2014
I noted with pleasure, in the usual deluge of comments, that some of you have fished out the story of the torpedoing of Aldo Costa from Ferrari. The emilianissimo Costa (*he comes from Emilia Romagna region in Italy) was removed as technical director (in the spring of 2011) after having traveled with me on the plane to the GP of Spain (perhaps eliminated because of the flight …) (*Leo here is joking). A few weeks later, Aldo was contacted by Mercedes and last Sunday, we saw him on the podium in the desert, next to Rosberg and Hamilton.
Going against the trend, I’m tempted to say that his history shows, with all due respect to my friend “Friend of Robben” (*one of Leo’s blog follower), that the practice of cutting heads does not necessarily mean positive consequences. But I do not like to win easy. Moreover, the Mercedes is dominating now. Aldo worked there for almost three years. During which, honestly, the Mercedes was not a missile.
Where do I want to arrive? (*It means: what is he getting at?) At the time of the high profile expulsion, I was the only one (but I’m used to it) to raise, again, more of the concern of the rationality of the choice and its meaning. The archives explain it clearly. At the same time, I told you the truth: inside Ferrari, Costa was not beloved by many of his employees / colleagues, who perhaps was not the genuine person for Ferrari’s failure but was the ideal scapegoat. Here, with all the due respect to my friend Robben and other friendly parties, lurks the error that goes beyond the people that make up the team. Think about it. In late 2009, we were told that they (Ferrari) needed a Schumacher-style test driver in order to justify the liquidation of Kimi. Monstrous shit talk!!! As it was confirmed by the following five years. And Alonso, I always say, has nothing to do with the matter, because anyone with a modicum of clarity has well understood as in modern F1 driver testers no longer exist (see also the flop of Schumacher in Mercedes in 2010-2012). Unless you believe (it is the stuff of fools) that in yesteryears, the Red Bull flew due to the insights of Vettel (but come on!). And now the Mercedes flies thanks to Hamilton (but come on the cube!). Similarly, it was accepted only by simpletons, three years ago, the argument that Costa was the real black hole of Ferrari. They are all nonsense from the Sports Bar talks, good for those who confuse F1 with a football team. F1 is, instead, an extremely complicated affair, not comparable to other competitive disciplines.
Just to conclude, what is lacking at Ferrari are not individual persons in individual roles (and in fact, we called Kimi and the car is a dump and maybe in two months, some scoundrel of the Media will say that it is the fault of Raikkonen, incapable of directing the work of engineers!) . Ferrari is missing (and we will not solve it by selling the company to Audi, damn it!) an entrepreneurial culture that can guarantee a correct interpretation of the requirements from Grand Prix to Grand Prix. Translated: if you have two years in which to package the car-style power unit and it stumps so bad, it’s hard to argue that this is the fault of an individual (today Domenicali, Costa in 2011, Kimi in 2009, etc.). Fact is that you have to understand this, or it’s better talk of Bayern Monaco, which to my delight (and Friend of Robben’s one) is a great football team (a stuff really really really much simpler than a team for Grands Prix, trust me). Take care you all. http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=3728
hes supposed to be a great businessman who has saved ferrari in many markets, but i wonder, is this what ferrari needs? def they must need a long term shaping up...but for short term, hmmm, lets see...
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Leo Turrini
Formula1 April 14, 2014
Stefano Domenicali has resigned. Domenicali leaves the company in which he entered as a boy in 1991, and within which has come without recommendations, his entire career. The news will be made official later in the day. Dom asked me to wait for noon to inform you but we are friends and he will understand. There is no time for hypocrisies (not his, mind you).
My opinion on the matter is known, and certainly unpopular as well. I consider Stephen a wonderful person and a great manager. I think it has contributed in no small way to the triumphs of the golden age. I recognize that from 2008 onwards, the year in which he took over from the Todt, there have been few satisfactions. A constructors title, many second places, and two titles lost in the final sprint. It was a devastating result, but the flop of T F 14 was assessed in the same way as an intolerable burden.
The future will tell who is right. In my opinion this is a mistake. They told me that the successor is Mr. Mattiacci. About 40, he hails from the Umbria region of Italy. I met him when he directed Ferrari’s Asia-Pacific division. Currently he is in command of Ferrari’s America division. And he is a man highly esteemed in Maranello and even more so in Turin. However, he has no racing experience. Will he make it? It’s worth a thousand wishes. He will need it. Domenicali leaves the stage and leaves Ferrari too. Who cannot wait to uncork the champagne? For me, it’s a bad day. For Ferrari, we’ll find out just by living. http://www.racingnerds.com/?p=3730
quote « A shock in Maranello Who is Marco Mattiacci?
April 14, 2014 by Joe Saward
There are a lot of stories today about Marco Mattiacci, the new head of Ferrari Gestione Sportiva, who is replacing Stefano Domenicali. He grew up in Rome and is 42 years of age. He is reported to have started his career at Jaguar Italia in 1989, which would have meant that he was only 17 or 18 and as he is also listed as having studied Economics at the Universita’ La Sapienza di Roma, the Jaguar involvement must necessarily been short-lived. He then worked in strategic consulting in London but in 1999 when he got a call from Ferrari to work in developing sales in various regions. After nearly two years he became the project leader of the Maserati launch in the United States for a year before moving to the US to be VP Sales and Marketing for Ferrari Maserati North America in 2002. Four years later he was sent to Shanghai as Executive VP for Business Development for Ferrari Asia Pacific, taking some time out to take part in the International Executive Programme at INSEAD in Singapore. After a year he was promoted to the role of President and CEO of Ferrari Asia Pacific and four years later was sent to the United States to be President and CEO of Ferrari North America, taking a little more time out in 2011 to attend a course at the Columbia Universy Business School in New York. He has since been based at Ferrari North America’s headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey, while living with his young family in SoHo in Manhattan.http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/04/1...arco-mattiacci/
Quote: icemaid wrote in post #520Damn! Bad news for Kimi then! Alonso will want a new savour.
Think so too. It's definitely not good news for Kimi. SD is probably not the best team boss but he did bring Kimi back to Ferrari and since that was his decision, he would make sure it would not be seen as mistake.
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i dont think a sacked Dom will be the solution to the problem..let alone bringing Briatore back 
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