Monaco Grand Prix Thursday press conference
21 May, 2021
Full transcript from the FIA-hosted press conference after Thursday practice for the Monaco Grand Prix, Round 5 of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship.
PART ONE
Featuring Mattia Binotto (Ferrari), Toto Wolff (Mercedes) and Laurent Rossi (Alpine).
Q: Mattia, can we start with you please. What is it about Charles Leclerc and his home race? A very frustrating start to the weekend for him with that gearbox problem.
Mattia BINOTTO: At first, I think enjoyable, exciting, I think it’s important for him, he knows very well the city, very well the streets and knows that he can drive very well around that layout. Last year we didn’t race here, the year before, we had somehow, let me say, a problem or an issue, a bad choice in quali that put him out of the top ten in quali. So, it was frustrating in the past and he knows that being back here this weekend he can try to do certainly better. I think it’s important to support h
16 April, 2021
Full transcript from the FIA-hosted Friday press conference at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola on day one of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Round 2 of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship.
PART ONE
Q: That was an eventful FP1 so can we start with a
résumé
from each of you about how it went. Franz, let’s start with you please.
Franz Tost: So far everything went OK, at least with Pierre Gasly. I think we have a competitive package together. Unfortunately with the soft tyres he hit a little bit of traffic, nevertheless, I think he can show a good performance here. With Yuki, we were not so lucky because there was an electronic problem on the power unit – a wiring loom or something like this. I hope that they can sort it out for the second free practice session and that he can do some laps and that we can set-up the car in a proper way that he is prepared for tomorrow for the qualifying and Sunday for the race.
More factory time for Binotto as Ferrari restructure
Date published:
February 25 2021
Ferrari have announced key structural changes to their team, while principal Mattia Binotto will reportedly decrease his presence at races.
In a statement, Ferrari said that their reasons for restructuring the team come in order to best channel their focus for the “current and coming seasons”. The Scuderia have previously made it clear that they see the new 2022 regulations as their best chance to return to the front of the grid.
The changes will see the chassis department reorganised into four key areas. David Sanchez will lead the vehicle concept section, chassis performance engineering will be headed by Enrico Cardile, chassis project engineering will be overseen by Fabio Montecchi, and Diego Ioverno will be in charge of vehicle operations.