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Audi Announce Mattia Binotto as New F1 Boss Amid Leadership Restructure

CosmicTaco · 2024-07-25T23:51:19.077384+05:30

- Audi has appointed former Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto as the new leader of their Formula 1 project, effective August 1. Binotto will serve as Chief Operating and Chief Technical Officer at Sauber Motorsport AG. - This move comes as part of a significant leadership overhaul, with Andreas Seidl and Oliver Hoffmann departing the project. Seidl had joined Sauber in January 2023 and was CEO of the Audi team. - Audi, which took full ownership of the Sauber team earlier this year, aims to compete under its own banner from 2026 with a new power unit developed in-house in Germany. - Binotto brings over 25 years of F1 experience, having served as Ferrari's Chief Technical Officer before becoming Team Principal in 2019. He left Ferrari in 2022. - Audi CEO Gernot Dollner expressed confidence in Binotto's ability to contribute significantly to the project, emphasizing the need for clear management structures and efficient decision-making processes to ensure competitiveness in F1. Source: Formula1

Audi has appointed former Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto as the new leader of their Formula 1 project, effective August 1. Binotto will serve as Chief Operating and Chief Technical Officer at Sauber Motorsport AG.
This move comes as part of a significant leadership overhaul, with Andreas Seidl and Oliver Hoffmann departing the project. Seidl had joined Sauber in January 2023 and was CEO of the Audi team.
Audi, which took full ownership of the Sauber team earlier this year, aims to compete under its own banner from 2026 with a new power unit developed in-house in Germany.
Binotto brings over 25 years of F1 experience, having served as Ferrari's Chief Technical Officer before becoming Team Principal in 2019. He left Ferrari in 2022.
Audi CEO Gernot Dollner expressed confidence in Binotto's ability to contribute significantly to the project, emphasizing the need for clear management structures and efficient decision-making processes to ensure competitiveness in F1.

Source: Formula1