Who is Fred Vasseur, the candidate for Ferrari team principal in place of Binotto-Corriere.it

In pole position to take Mattia Binotto’s place next season (even if Ferrari denies a change) is the French Frdric Vasseur, 54 year old team principal of Alfa Romeo. The name of him the favorite after casting started for some time now. The top management of the Cavallino had probed various figures, including Andreas Seidl of McLaren and a senior German executive from Porsche’s motorsport department.

The final choice seems to have fallen on Vasseur, who boasts a long experience in the youth racing categories where he has seen future champions grow. Man of many interests, he founded the Art Grand Prix together with Nicolas Todt (manager of Leclerc).a team present in F3 and Formula 2 with which it won 11 driver championships, the last of which, in 2018, with George Russell who also won his first Formula 1 race on Sunday in Brazil.

He also has an excellent relationship with Charles Leclerc: it was he who made him make his F1 debut in 2018 with Alfa-Sauber. A season of apprenticeship before moving on to Ferrari. Before Leclerc, and before arriving in Formula 1 in Renault and then in Sauber, Vasseur had founded the Team Asm with Renault which has passed (very young) future successful drivers such as Hamilton, Vettel, Bottas, but also the young Di Resta , Bianchi, Grosjean, Hulkemberg.

The French team principal has an aeronautical engineering degree but not a pure technician, rather a manager of teams and companies. With his Spark Technologies he produces chassis and cars for Formula E.