Former team boss warns struggling Ferrari: Vasseur 'will be the next scapegoat'

After battling McLaren until the very end for the Constructors’ title last year, expectations were high for Ferrari to finally be a genuine contender for both championships this season — something that hasn’t happened since 2008, when Felipe Massa and Kimi Räikkönen delivered the Scuderia’s last world titles.

Instead, the mere three podium finishes and the enormous gap to McLaren in the standings have significantly lowered expectations ahead of the Bahrain pre-season tests, with Frederic Vasseur now inevitably finding himself in the firing line.

Just like in football, it's often the manager who pays the price when things go wrong — and in Formula 1, the same logic applies. The team principal is frequently the first to come under fire, and Ferrari now runs the risk of hitting the reset button once again, only two years after parting ways with Mattia Binotto at the end of 2022.

But would a change at the top really be the solution that could allow the Italian team to rise again? Not according to Gunther Steiner, who knows a thing or two about these kinds of dynamics, and who shared his view on what’s been happening in Maranello over the past few weeks.

"If we look at history, I think we can see he will be the next scapegoat," Steiner told the Red Flags podcast when weighing in on Ferrari's situation.