The facts
Ferrari has denied that team principal Frédéric Vasseur is under threat, amid Italian media reports that his relationship with CEO Benedetto Vigna is "now virtually non-existent" and that his rapport with Lewis Hamilton, whom Vasseur helped bring to Ferrari last season, is "no longer what it used to be".
The trigger was an interview in which former Red Bull chief Christian Horner said Ferrari was "the dream" and the only team he would join without demanding a shareholding. That poured fuel on a fire already burning from Ferrari's second-half slump: 2026 was supposed to be the year Ferrari returned to championship contention, but the team has won just two races, and neither Hamilton nor Charles Leclerc has stood on the podium in the last five grands prix.
In response, Ferrari took the unusual step of hastily arranging a conference to reaffirm its faith in Vasseur. The company, which typically refuses to engage with this sort of rumor, sent a spokesperson named Conti to deliver the message. "We have confidence, full confidence, in Fred Vasseur and in his team, and we continue to do so." she said, per The Race. Neither Vigna nor executive chairman John Elkann was on the call. Elkann reportedly sounded out Horner about the job in 2022 before hiring Vasseur. "I don't have John and Benedetto with me, but I'm of course aligned with the top management, and Ferrari has made its choices." Conti said. "There is confidence in Fred Vasseur and his team. Nothing has changed, and we continue to do so. That's it."
Vasseur signed a multi-year contract in the middle of last season. Conti said she wanted to keep this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix from being dominated by speculation, noting the chatter was increasing rather than fading.
Our take
What a pathetic, transparent, and utterly cowardly display of corporate bullshit. Ferrari, the proud, silent institution, shat itself so completely over some tabloid gossip that it called an emergency fucking press conference just to lie through its teeth. And the real punchline? The two cunts at the top, CEO Benedetto Vigna and chairman John Elkann, couldn't even be fucked to dial in. They sent a spokesperson named Conti to read the most unconvincing hostage statement in F1 history while they presumably hid under their desks, polishing their own balls and hoping it would all blow over. 'I don't have John and Benedetto with me,' Conti said. No shit, Sherlock. When the building is on fire, the real bosses are never on the scene; they're in the helicopter counting their golden parachutes, watching the blaze from a safe distance. This wasn't a vote of confidence; it was a public execution where the firing squad showed up, but the fucking executioners called in sick and sent the office intern to pull the trigger with a water pistol. It's the most insulting non-vote of non-confidence ever conceived, and everyone, including Fred Vasseur, knows exactly what it means: you're a dead man walking, Fred, and your bosses are such spineless pricks they won't even look you in the eye while they sharpen the knife. The whole fucking circus was triggered because Christian Horner, the smug bastard Elkann tried to hire back in 2022, is still publicly wanking himself off over the Ferrari job, calling it 'the dream' in an interview. So now Vasseur has to sit there, winless for five races, listening to his own bosses' wet dream replacement talk about how much he'd love to fuck his wife, while a PR flunky assures the world that Fred's dick is still massive, honest. The team is a fucking joke, the management are gutless cowards, and the only thing with 'full confidence' at Ferrari is the confidence that this entire shambles will be someone else's problem very, very soon. What a bunch of clowns. Fuck the lot of them. End of story. No notes. Just an absolute fucking embarrassment from top to bottom. Get in the bin. The whole fucking team. Bin. Now. Fucking pricks. It's enough to make you piss blood with rage.
