Reports: Jean Todt Veto Causes a Rift Between Ferrari President and Mattia Binotto

2022 is an important season for the Ferrari F1 team. They are pre-season favorites going into the first race of the year in Bahrain on the back of their impressive showing in 2021.

But there might be some trouble in paradise in the administrative department of the team.

There have been some reports that there is some tension growing between Mattia Binotto and John Elkann. It is speculated that the Ferrari president is not too keen on keeping Binotto as the team principal. It was also reported that Elkann even blocked the return of Jean Todt back into the team.

According to Formu1a.uno, Elkann wants a ‘real team principal’ like Andreas Seidl and Christian Horner to lead the team. He also was not very keen to see Todt being offered a role as a special advisor in the team.

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I think I learned a lot from him: Ferrari team boss on Todt

As quoted by Planetf1, there were several reports that after leaving his FIA President role, Jean Todt will join Ferarri for the 2022 season. But team boss Mattia Binotto refused those reports as speculations. He also stated he has a lot of respect for his former boss and learned a lot from him.

“Personally, I have worked with Jean Todt. He has been my boss and I think I learned a lot from him. It has been an honor to work with him and I would say that as well, whatever will be the case in the future, it will still be an honor for me to work together with him because I still believe that, as Mattia and as a team, there is still much to learn.” said Mattia.

Well, it would have been lovely to see Todt working again in the Italian team. Let’s see how the relationship between Elkann and Binotto develops in the coming weeks.

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