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“He is there, with his good face and his jokes”: Frédéric Vasseur, the Frenchman who relaunched Ferrari

2024-03-01T08:55:01.439Z

Highlights: Frédéric Vasseur is the new boss of Ferrari. The 55-year-old Frenchman took over from Jean Todt last season. Ferrari have not won a world champion title since Kimi Räikkönen in 2007. Vasseu has already signed Lewis Hamilton for 2025 with the Italian team's next driver to be announced later this month. “I am a Fred who is still alive. This is already good news!” he says of Lewis Hamilton.


A year after his arrival, the boss of the Italian team has already achieved the coup of the century by recruiting Lewis Hamilton for 2025. Frédéric Vas


“I am a Fred who is still alive.

This is already good news!

» At the end of his first season at the head of Ferrari, Frédéric Vasseur knew that he had achieved the essential: survive.

Survive in the most legendary of F 1 teams which is going through one of the greatest shortages in its history.

Without a world champion title since that of Kimi Räikkönen in 2007, the Scuderia has bet since the start of last season on the 55-year-old Frenchman to rise from the ashes.

The last Frenchman to take the reins of the prancing horse was none other than Jean Todt with seven constructors' world championship titles under his belt over a period of 15 seasons (1993-2007).

Suffice to say that the pressure was greater than ever.

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Source: leparis

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