The Ferrari team principal is under such pressure that he wondered whether to resign. Charles Leclerc can be the man to reinvigorate Ferrari again amid their worrying decline. Their placings in Spa last weekend, with Sebastian Vettel 13th and Charles Leclerc 14th, were the lowest (in races both cars have finished) for a decade. At the top is 50-year-old Binotto, the long, bespectacled Ferrari-lifer, who moved from his purely engineering role to that of team boss at the start of 2019. Leclerc is the anointed heir to Schumacher, but even he is restive. Leclerc is a good young driver but must carry the baggage of history and scrutiny at the top. Speaking to Corriere della Sera, Binotto said: ‘Charles grew up with us, knows the values of Ferrari and is very close to us all.

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