Piero Ferrari: We've acted in the exclusive interest of Ferrari

Son of Enzo Ferrari, as well as vice-chairman, Piero Ferrari delivered the first soundbite on the matter by a senior team figure when he told Gazzetta dello Sport, "We've acted in the exclusive interest of Ferrari."

"Everything happened before Christmas. We wanted to preserve technical continuity, without creating any disruption in the structure of the team."

"What was most important was to guarantee the technical continuity of the Cavallino racing department while counting on Binotto's vast competence is fundamental."

Currently, Ferrari is presided over by Chairman John Elkann and CEO Louis Camilleri, the pair taking over from Sergio Marchionne when he passed away unexpectedly in July last year.

Neither has been visible or vocal since they took command, prompting speculation that Camilleri may follow his former Marlboro colleague Arrivabene out the door.

But Piero Ferrari poured cold water on rumours of his demise, "It is important to allow Louis Camilleri enough time to work and settle in. He recently arrived at Ferrari and obviously has his own style, different from that of Marchionne but at the same time unique and inimitable."

Whatever the case, the Camilleri 'style' appears to be: retreat into your tortoise-shell and say nothing.

A far cry from his predecessors Luca di Montezemolo and Marchionne who always had something to say when they ruled the house of Maranello and in times of crisis, like now, they were the most vocal!

Perhaps the role of fronting the team should fall on 42-year-old Elkann who has also been very low profile since he took over as Chairman, with very little media exposure in a job that requires high public visibility.

However, by all accounts, the Agnelli heir was involved in trying to diffuse the feud between Arrivabene and Binotto but failed to broker a truce accord between the pair. As it turned out, it was always going to be a case of making a choice between one or the other.

Now, Binotto is going to need a great deal of help and constant support from his boss. In turn, Elkann needs only to look at the template for successful management, at Maranello - set by Luca di Montezemolo with Jean Todt - to know that he needs to do to make it work.

In other words, Elkann has to be for Binotto what Montezemolo was for Todt, with immediate effect, because in the end the failings of Maurizio Arrivabene and Marco Mattiacci can only be attributed to those who put them there in the first place...