Mattia Binotto warned he could lose Ferrari chief job after 'giving' wins to Red Bull

Mattia Binotto has been warned that his role as Ferrari team principal may be under threat with the team "in hot water" in their title fight with Red Bull.

Ferrari made the faster start to the 2022 campaign, with Charles Leclerc winning two of the first three races. Carlos Sainz was also scoring a healthy amount of points, while Red Bull had some early-season reliability problems which cost them a significant number of points.

The two teams have switched fortunes since, though, with the Italian team now finding gremlins in their hardware while Max Verstappen has been running riot at the front of the field. The defending champion has won five of the last six races, the other being in Monaco where team-mate Sergio Perez took the chequered flag.

Ferrari, suffering from engine reliability issues that have also affected their customers on the grid, Alfa Romeo and Haas, have dropped 76 points behind in the constructors' table. And according to Formula 1 icon Juan Pablo Montoya, a failure to close that gap could cost Binotto his job.

"As a team they're not executing as good as they need to be. That's what it really comes to," the Colombian, a winner of seven F1 races, told VegasInsider. "You can say half of the wins of Red Bull have been given away by Ferrari, not won by Red Bull. While Red Bull has won some races by performance, some others is like - 'really, did you throw this one away as well?'

"Everybody in Ferrari is in hot water – nobody wants to make a mistake and nobody wants to get blamed and then everybody starts putting pressure. When you start making mistakes, the pressure comes. Even for the mechanics. The guys making mistakes, they're like 'I don't wanna screw up'.

"And they keep making bad calls. It's