The key F1 management call Ferrari must make to avoid more defeat

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Jonathan Noble

Nov 30, 2022, 3:36 PM

OPINION: Mattia Binotto’s departure from Ferrari will naturally bring a range of changes across the Formula 1 team. But how the changes shape up and the impact they could have is set to be dictated by a key direction Ferrari’s top dogs will need to pick

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“It takes years to create a safe environment. If you're a high-performance organisation there is automatic stress, and it's human nature to try to identify who is at fault - because it helps release pressure. It's easier to say, 'it's your fault!'. Acknowledging that psychology works on you is the first step towards changing.

“But when you've been with each other for a while, you understand the personalities and you're capable of being brutally honest with each other, and transparent, and that creates an environment where people will say 'I made a mistake'. But again, this is something that takes many years and needs proof.

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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.