Rumors swirl as Binotto rejects Audi's F1 team boss offer
Jun.12 - Mattia Binotto reportedly rejected an offer to become team boss at Audi's new works Formula 1 project.
Former McLaren boss Andreas Seidl is now the CEO at Sauber - which will transition to the works Audi outfit in F1 by 2026.
But rumours suggest Italian Binotto, the ousted Ferrari team boss, was given a tour of Audi's Neuberg headquarters recently.
And according to Business F1 magazine, he was not impressed.
"He was somewhat disappointed by what he saw at Audi," the Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport also reports.
"So much so that in some private messages he sensationally said that some of the characters he met in that meeting were 'clowns'."
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With his curly hair and incharge of cars that fall apart, and he calls someone else a clown Er...
Nicely put Strop
Hmmmm, I think he deserves a lot more respect after the results of last year and can hold his head high looking at the way things go this season.
Ferrari made a huge mistake by axing him, they know that now, but the board is probably to proud to admit it and will move up a lot of people form the WEC department into F1.
Look how well they go now in F1... Vasseur looks a lot more like a clown by the way...
Have we sunk so low to denigrate someone because of their hair style
Ferrari made a big mistake losing Binotto
His 2022 plans are coming to fruition
all ill say is Q3 , going well is it