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Binotto rehearsed Vettel sacking three times

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said he mentally rehearsed three times how he was going to tell Sebastian Vettel that he would lose his seat. The Scuderia made a controversial call to confirm that four-time World Champion Vettel would not drive for them in 2021 before the current season began, and so far in 2020 Vettel has looked a shell of his former self, languishing all the way down in P13 in the Drivers' Championship. Binotto has consistently said that the decision was a difficult one to make, and now he has revealed during an exclusive interview with Sky Italia that he had to rehearse the phone call three times in his head before making it. 'I was at home, and before I called...
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