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Ferrari F1 boss Domenicali quits after poor run
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FERRARI’S Formula One boss Stefano Domenicali quit yesterday over the legendary Italian team’s disastrous start to the 2014 season.
“It is time for a significant change,” Domenicali said in a Ferrari statement.
Ferrari has failed to get in the top three in the first three races of the season and is just fifth in the constructors’ table.
Ferrari’s North American CEO Marco Mattiacci will assume control of the team, his remit simple — to reverse the scuderia’s fortunes in a year when Mercedes is leaving all in its wake.
Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo thanked Domenicali “for his sense of responsibility up to today where he placed Ferrari’s interests before his own.”
Domenicali took over from Jean Todt as Ferrari’s team principal in 2008. But he has faced growing pressure over the poor performances of drivers Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen.
“There are special moments that come along in everyone’s professional life when one needs courage to take difficult and very agonising decisions,” Domenicali said.
“It is time for a significant change. As the boss I take responsibility, as I always have done, for our current situation,” he added.
“This decision has been taken with the aim of doing something to shake things up.”
Domenicali’s reign featured a constructors title in his first year in charge but crucially no drivers’ titles, with Felipe Massa going closest in 2008.
Mattiacci joins the team with Alonso fourth in the drivers’ title race with 26 points and Raikkonen in 12th with a mere seven points. The next race is in China on Sunday.
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