瓦塞尔回击法拉利帅位传闻：霍纳先生正在找工作
法拉利领队瓦塞尔回击外界关于其帅位的传闻，称这些猜测正在分散车队的注意力。此前法拉利在2026年新规则实施后表现未达预期，勒克莱尔和汉密尔顿分别仅获第四和第六。
“霍纳先生正在找工作”——弗雷德里克·瓦塞尔回击关于法拉利的传闻
法拉利车队领队弗雷德里克·瓦塞尔表示，关于他未来的猜测正在分散车队的注意力，使其无法专注于本职工作
弗雷德里克·瓦塞尔，法拉利车队领队兼总经理，与克里斯蒂安·霍纳，红牛车队领队
法拉利几乎是意大利的第二宗教——因此每当它未能实现其远大目标时，就会有传言称其领导层正面临威胁。
在2026年规则重置之后的季前测试和赛季初的比赛中展现出相当大的潜力之后，法拉利却滑入了竞争力上的无人区，夏尔·勒克莱尔正是这一困境的缩影
勒克莱尔和刘易斯·汉密尔顿分别以第四名和第六名完赛，与前方的赛车差距明显。车队目前在车队积分榜上排名第二，但大幅落后于梅赛德斯，并且受到迈凯伦和红牛的威胁。
汉密尔顿在巴塞罗那的胜利依然是本赛季的亮点，这也让法拉利在那些原本期望表现出色的赛道上令人失望的成绩显得更加刺眼。
在执行力方面一直存在持续的失误，例如在意大利大奖赛和阿塞拜疆的排位赛中，都没有为两辆赛车安排牵引助力，而汉密尔顿也多次批评车队缺乏纪律——不过这一点应放在他希望车队支持他那日渐黯淡的夺冠雄心的背景下看待。
这不可避免地让车队的领导层受到审视，尽管瓦塞尔的合同一直延续到2027年底，但他仍被关于其前途的传闻所困扰。
最近几天这些传闻愈演愈烈，不过据了解，所谓他正在被“安排”逐步退居二线的说法，其实并非来自法拉利内部。
但它们究竟从何而来？毫无疑问是出自某个带有自己目的的消息源——或者，正如这类事情的常见情形一样，来自那些没有其他法拉利相关要闻可写的意大利网站。
最近这轮猜测的爆发，恰逢前红牛车队领队克里斯蒂安·霍纳接受《泰晤士报》采访，为其下月出版的新回忆录做宣传。在采访中，他承认，想要获得公司的股权，是他回归一个重要职位的前提条件。
“我在维修区墙上坐了21年，我不需要再回到那种日子……在我人生的这个阶段，只有一支车队会让我愿意接受不参与所有权的情况。”
“我会考虑法拉利吗？我是说，法拉利是F1中最大的品牌。它是梦想，也可以说是F1中的沉睡巨人。”
在阿塞拜疆大奖赛后被问及关于他职位的持续猜测是否给车队带来了压力时，瓦塞尔以他惯常的那种令人放松又略带调侃的方式回应。
“如果问题是这个的话，我们的工作环境并不是完全平静的。”他如是说道。
“对我来说，首先是这一点，对车队里的每个人、对媒体、对围绕这件事的50%的提问来说，我认为这是一个多少令人沮丧的局面。
“我们正在为年度第二名而战。说到底，我们大家都在谈论很多关于这件事（关于他位置的传闻），甚至连维修区里的技师们也在讨论这个，这不是我们能进行的最好的讨论。但事实就是如此，这不在我的掌控之中。
“霍纳先生正在找工作——这一点众所周知——到处在找。
“但我能做什么呢？我只能尽力推动车队，要求他们保持斗志，专注于今天什么才是最有利的，而不是把时间花在八卦上。
“但每次采访都是如此，一天大概25次，我想我们又在回到这个话题上。”
F1媒体往往像一个回音室，尤其是在赛季的这个阶段，关于车手下赛季转会的猜测已经成为一个被谈论到 被榨干、毫无新意的话题。
一条小小的传闻经过无休止的重复，就可能演变成近乎事实的东西。
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但法拉利在短时间内与领导者分道扬镳这件事上是有前科的。瓦塞尔本人就是在马蒂亚·比诺托之后被任命上位的，后者在2022年底‘辞职’，而那个赛季法拉利的局面同样是竞争力逐渐流失。当一个项目被认为正在失败时，往往需要一个替罪羊。
霍纳本人对此深有体会——在他的回忆录中，他把被赶下台归因于迪特里希·马特希茨去世后红牛内部权力更迭所引发的内斗，加上一段竞争力的统治期戛然而止。
在《泰晤士报》的采访中，他承认自己是一个“两极分化的角色”（Marmite character），尽管他拥有成功的履历。
当被问及下赛季是否会回到F1围场时，他说：“我不知道。我既是解药，也是问题。”
现任法拉利车队领队正因有关其前途的问题被各方穷追猛打，而那位悠闲的绅士则在牛津郡一栋二级保护豪宅的惬意环境中观望机会，两者之间形成了耐人寻味的对比。
他说：“我的处境非常优越，可以挑剔着选。”
“就算我什么都不做，也可以在这个房子里度过余生，只需要操心会不会下雨、草能不能长绿。”
“但这样能满足我吗？不能。我仍然觉得还有一支舞要跳。托托也需要把头发再揉乱一回了。”
英文原文
"Mr Horner is looking for a job" – Frederic Vasseur claps back at Ferrari rumours
Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur says speculation about his future is distracting his team from its job
Frederic Vasseur, Team Principal and General Manager, Scuderia Ferrari, with Christian Horner, Team Principal, Red Bull Racing
Ferrari is practically Italy’s second religion – so whenever it falls short of its lofty ambitions, speculation follows that its leaders are under threat.
After showing considerable promise in the pre-season and early races following the 2026 rules reset, Ferrari has drifted into a competitive no-man’s land epitomised by Charles
Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton finishing fourth and sixth, distant from the cars ahead. It is second in the constructors’ championship, but well behind Mercedes and under threat from McLaren and Red Bull.
Hamilton’s win in Barcelona remains the season’s bright spot, and one that throws disappointing results at circuits where Ferrari expected to excel into even sharper relief.
There have been persistent slips in execution, such as not orchestrating a tow for both cars in qualifying for the Italian GP and again in Azerbaijan, and Hamilton has repeatedly criticised the lack of discipline – though this should be viewed in the context of him wanting the team to support his fading championship ambitions.
This had inevitably brought the team’s leadership under scrutiny and Vasseur has been dogged by rumours about his future, even though his contract extends to the end of 2027.
These have intensified in recent days, though it’s understood that claims he is being “stage managed” into retirement are not actually sourced from within Ferrari.
But where do they come from? Indubitably a source with an agenda – or, as is often the way with such things, Italian websites with few other Ferrari-based matters of moment to discuss.
The latest burst of speculation coincides with an interview former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner gave to The Times to promote his new memoir, which is published next month. In it, he acknowledged that his desire to have equity in the business has been a prerequisite for him returning to a leading role.
“I did 21 years sitting on the pitwall. I don’t need to go back to that… At this stage in my life, there’s only one team for which I would accept non-participation in ownership.
“Would I consider Ferrari? I mean, Ferrari is the biggest brand in Formula 1. It’s the dream and arguably it’s the sleeping giant of Formula 1.”
Asked after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix whether the constant speculation about his position was putting the team under pressure, Vasseur responded in his usual disarmingly wry fashion.
“We are not working in perfect serenity, if that is the question,” he said.
“For me, first, but for everybody on the team, for the media, for 50% of the questions about this, I think it's a bit of a frustrating situation.
“We are fighting for P2 in the championship. At the end of the day, we are all speaking a lot about this [rumours about his position], and even for the guys in the garage to discuss about this, it's not the best discussion that we can have. But it is what it is, it's not in my hands.
“Mr Horner is looking for a job – that everybody knows – everywhere.
“But what can I do? Just to try to do my best to push the team, to ask them to be motivated, focus on what is better today, and not to spend time with gossips.
“But each interview, it's been 25 times a day, I think we are coming back on this.”
The F1 media tends to act as an echo chamber, especially at a time in the season when speculation about driver moves for the coming season has become an exhausted subject.
A single piece of scuttlebutt can metamorphose into something adjacent to fact through endless repetition.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Frederic Vasseur, Ferrari
But Ferrari has form in parting with leaders at short notice. Vasseur himself was installed in place of Mattia Binotto, who ‘resigned’ at the end of 2022, a season in which Ferrari’s narrative was similarly one of competitive drift. A human sacrifice is often required when a project is deemed to be failing.
Horner himself knows this well enough – in his memoir he ascribes his ousting to internal politics surrounding the regime change at Red Bull following the death of Dietrich Mateschitz, combined with a run of competitive dominance coming to an abrupt end.
In his interview in The Times he acknowledged that he is a “Marmite character”, albeit one with a track record of success.
Asked if he would be back in the F1 paddock next season, he said: “I don’t know. I’m the cure and the problem.”
There is a fascinating contrast between the present occupant of the Ferrari team principal role, battered from all sides about questions regarding his future, and the gentleman of leisure keeping his options open from the convivial environs of his Grade II listed Oxfordshire mansion.
“I’m in a very fortunate position that I can afford to be picky,” he said.
“If I don’t do anything, I can live here for whatever time I’ve got left on the planet, and just worry about whether it’s going to rain and make the grass green or not.
“But is that going to fulfil me? No. I still feel that there’s another dance. And Toto needs to have his hair f***ing ruffled up.”
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