Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said Ferrari need to have a plan

Ferrari finished the 2025 Formula 1 season fourth in the Constructors' Standings with only seven podiums courtesy of Charles Leclerc while Lewis Hamilton massively struggled in his first season with the Reds, not appearing on the podium with the highlight of his season being that solitary Sprint win in China.

Domenicali, who was in the Ferrari hot seat between 2008 and 2014, was the last Scuderia boss to oversee a Championship-winning season. Ferrari won the 2008 Constructors' Championship under his watch, while Felipe Massa lost out to Hamilton—a McLaren driver at the time—on that year's Drivers' Crown by one point. They last won a Drivers' Title in 2007 with Kimi Raikkonen when Jean Todt was still Team Principal.

Ferrari gave up on their 2025 F1 season early and stopped car development when they saw how dominant McLaren were which added to their plight as their drivers'.

Ferrari put all their focus on 2026, when Fred Vasseur and his team will have nowhere to hide following the disasters of 2025, which featured tense moments when Ferrari big boss John Elkann cluelessly intervened, giving both drivers a public dressing-down, basically telling them to shut up and drive.

Commenting on the situation of his former team, Domenicali urged for optimism and said: "I'm a positive guy. There's no need to cry; there's no need to always be negative. They need to have a plan.

"I'm sure Fred, Lewis and Charles have a plan and that's what is important. I think it's important to react, not to fade away, and for it to be normal to be fourth in the championship.

"We want to have [a] strong Ferrari," the Italian insisted. "They deserve to be in a stronger position. They need to make sure that there is the right energy and the right thing to follow up, because in 2026, everyone is talking, but no one knows where they are.

"If you saw what happened last year, everyone was already knowing what was happening in the future. Stay tuned because every race there will be an evolution," Domenicali concluded. (Source: Sky Sports F1)