Overview
- The Baku race on Monday left Charles Leclerc fourth and Lewis Hamilton sixth, extending Ferrari’s run without a podium since the July Spa Grand Prix and widening the championship gap to roughly 160 points.
- Team engineers and journalists judge this season’s power unit project a failure, and the Aduo2 update brought to Monza did not restore competitiveness.
- Fred Vasseur remains team principal and publicly defended after signing a multi‑year renewal last year, but his leadership is under intensified internal scrutiny as voices inside Maranello weigh alternatives.
- Christian Horner publicly called Ferrari a dream destination in a Times interview, a move that has fuelled succession talk and exposed splits among executives and drivers with Benedetto Vigna reportedly sceptical and Piero Ferrari more open to the idea.
- Changes on track are unlikely this season because of technical constraints and contracts, so Ferrari faces a choice between sticking with Vasseur to try to steady the team or pursuing a disruptive leadership change that could reshape relationships with drivers and staff.