Binotto admits to frustration under his calm persona

Watching Ferrari’s dreams of a championship double implode, Mattia Binotto may have a calm façade but he’s insists he is as “frustrated” as everyone else.

Beginning this season at a canter, the Prancing Horse raced out to a 34-point lead in the Drivers’ Championship with Charles Leclerc scoring maximum points in two of the first three races.

But with just one win in the following 10, he now trails Max Verstappen by 80 points, the size of the deficit meaning even if he wins everything after the summer break he cannot win the title without the Red Bull driver dropping points.

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Ferrari have, it is fair to say, only themselves to blame.

The Scuderia’s reliability and poor decision making has cost the driver 108 points in total while Leclerc’s own mistakes saw him drop a further 32.

Such was Leclerc’s exasperation after the Hungarian GP, a race he should have won but instead finished P6, that he told the media it feels “like there is always something going wrong” at Ferrari.

He’s not the only one annoyed with the situation.

“I’m frustrated no doubt,” team boss Binotto insisted to Channel 4 after the Hungarian race, “even if I’m maybe not showing it too much, but I’m certainly frustrated.

“Because I know what is the potential of the car, what it has been so far, even if today it’s the first time in the first half of the season that the car was not so great.”

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