Jean Todt: Lack of unity at Ferrari key to Sebastian Vettel’s exit
Jean Todt believes a lack of unity at Ferrari has been key to Sebastian Vettel’s failure to emulate Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 achie🤡vements and 🌃has ultimately led to his impending exit.
Unless Vettel can claim the world championship in his sixth and final season at Ferrari before he departs at the end of 2020, he will have been unable to achieve his dream of emulating his childhood hero Schumacher’s success with the ཧItalian squad.
Jean Todt believes a lack of unity at Ferrari has been 🃏key to Sebastian Vettel’s failure to emulate🌜 Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 achievements and has ultimately led to his impending exit.
Unless Vettel ca🅰n claim the world championship in his sixth and final season at Ferrari before he departs at the end of 2020, he will 📖have been unable to achieve his dream of emulating his childhood hero Schumacher’s success with the Italian squad.
The four-time world champion has won 14 races with Ferrari since his arrival in 2015 but has so far been unable💛 to secure a title that has eluded the Scuderia since 2008, having come closest in 2017 and 2018 when he finished runner-up to Lewis Hamilton.
Current FIA president Todt, who helped spearhead Schumacher’s streak of 🍌five successive titles as Ferrari’s team principal, explained why he feels Vettel has been unable to achieve similar le♛vels of success.
"The🍌 result, good or bad, you can always explain it," Todt said in an interview on Sky Sports F1.
"Together with Michael, the whole team at Ferrari, we had so much success because we had a very united, strong team, who were supportive to each other, mainl🗹𒁃y in the difficult times than in the good times.
"It's easy to be together when all is good, but you see a good sailor in a rough sea. When we were in a rough sea, we were all on the boat, and I think that's what made the diffe🌼rence.”
And with Veꦫttel’s future beyond 2020 the subject of much speculation, Todt says any team would be “very lucky” to sign the German.
"Sebastian Vettel is one of the greatest talents in motorspo💃rt," Todt explained.
"An announcement has been done, but 🍨he will not drive for his actual team beyond 2020. There are a lot of other opportunities.
"We ca🌳n only wish him the best, and I really feel that who𓆏ever will take him, will be very lucky.
"He is clearly oℱne of the drivers that with a proper car, he can win championships. When Michael 𝔍arrived in '96, he only managed to win three races - not because he was not motivated, he simply did not have the car to allow him to be world champion.
"Slowly, we built the car and built the team which made it💎 possible, so it's a combination. You take Lewis Hamilton - if he 🦩would not be able to drive a winning car, he could not be world champion.
"You saw that♋ with [Fernando] Alonso, you saw that♏ with Vettel. It's logic."
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