Sergio Marchionne is Chief Executive Officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and Chairman and CEO of FCA US LLC. In addition, he is also Chairman of CNH Industrial N.V. and Chairman and CEO of Ferrari N.V..
Born in Chieti (Italy) in 1952, he has dual Canadian and Italian citizenship. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, as well as a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Windsor (Canada).
Mr. Marchionne is a barrister, solicitor and chartered accountant.
In February 2002, he became CEO of the SGS Group of Geneva. In March 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the company, a position which he continues to hold. From 2008 to April 2010, he also served as non-executive Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Director of UBS.
Mr. Marchionne became a member of the Fiat S.p.A. Board of Directors in May 2003, and Chief Executive Officer on 1 June 2004. In addition, in June 2009, he was appointed CEO of Chrysler Group LLC ( renamed FCA US LLC in December 2014) and, in September 2011, also assumed the role of Chairman. On 13 October 2014, he became CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and Chairman of Ferrari S.p.A.
Maurizio Arrivabene (born in Brescia in 1957) is the current team principal of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team. He was appointed in November 2014, replacing Marco Mattiacci in the role.
Arrivabene comes from a marketing and sales background. In 1997, he joined Philip Morris, rising to become the Vice President of Marlboro Global Communication and Promotions for Philip Morris International in 2007 and the Vice President of Consumer Channel Strategy and Event Marketing in 2011. Through his work with Philip Morris, he became involved with the company's sponsorship (through the Marlboro brand) of the Ferrari team, and sat on the Formula One Commission as a representative for all the sport's sponsors from 2010.
On 23 November 2014, Ferrari announced that Arrivabene had been appointed as its team principal, replacing Marco Mattiacci, who had himself only been in the position since taking over from Stefano Domenicali in April that year. The decision to install Arrivabene was made by new Ferrari chairman, Sergio Marchionne, who gave Arrivabene's "thorough understanding not just of Ferrari but also of the governance mechanisms and requirements of the sport" as the reason for his appointment. This appointment was part of a team rejuvenation process by Marchionne who deposed the ex long-time Ferrari Chairman, Luca di Montezemolo, in September 2014.
He has also been an independent board member of Juventus F.C. since 2012.
Mattia Binotto was born on 3 November 1969 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Having graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Lausanne Polytechnic in 1994, he then obtained a Masters in Motor Vehicle Engineering in Modena. In 1995, he joined the Scuderia Ferrari test team as a Test Engine Engineer and fulfilled the same role with the race team from 1997 to 2003.
In 2004, he became a Race engine engineer and from 2007 Binotto took on the role of Chief Engineer, race and assembly, moving on in 2009 to Head of Engine and KERS Operations.
Having been appointed Deputy Director, Engine and Electronics in October 2013, Binotto subsequently took on the role of Chief Operating Officer, Power Unit.
On July 27, 2016, he has been appointed Chief Technical Officer of Scuderia Ferrari.
Sebastian Vettel was born on 3 July 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany. He began karting in 1991, aged three and in 1995 he started racing. Vettel won a series of karting titles, including the German Junior Karting Championship, the Monaco Kart Cup and the European Junior Karting Championship. In 2003, he graduated to single-seaters, taking part in the German Formula BMW series, in which he came second in his first season, winning the title the following year. In 2005, he finished fifth in the Formula 3 Euroseries and had his first taste of Formula 1, when he was given a test in a Williams. In 2006, he finished second in the Formula 3 Euroseries and became test driver for BMW Sauber. In 2007, Vettel began competing in the World Series by Renault and that same year he took over from Scott Speed in the Toro Rosso team, after the European Grand Prix. In 2008, he took his first win, at the Italian Grand Prix, the youngest ever Formula 1 winner.
He finished the season eighth and was rewarded with a move to Red Bull Racing. In 2009, he won in Shanghai, Silverstone and Suzuka, finishing second in the Drivers’ Championship. In 2010, Vettel became the youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion. He was totally dominant in 2011, winning 11 Grands Prix, taking his second world title, four races from the end of the season. In 2012 and 2013, he went on to secure his third and fourth titles, finishing fifth in 2014. In 2015 he finished third in his first season with Scuderia Ferrari and in 2016, he was fourth.
Kimi-Matias Raikkonen was born in Espoo, Finland on 17 October 1979. He first tried karting at the age of three before going on to enjoy great success in this discipline, as from 1989. He won the Nordic Kart Championship at Varna, in Norway in 1998 and was second in the European Formula Super A Karting Championship in 1999. Switching to single-seaters, he then won the UK Formula Renault Championship in 2000. After taking part in several test with Sauber in Formula 1, Raikkonen signed for the Swiss team for the 2001 season, when he finished in the point four times. In 2002, he joined McLaren, ending the year sixth, while the following year he came second, just two points behind Michael Schumacher. He spent three more years with the British team, before joining Ferrari in 2007 and winning the World Championship that same year. He left the Scuderia at the end of 2009, spending 2010 and 2011 competing in the World Rally Championship and NASCAR. He then returned to Formula 1 with Lotus in 2012, where he spent two seasons. He rejoined the Scuderia in 2014, finishing eleventh in that year’s championship. In 2015 he was fourth and in 2016, he finished sixth.
Antonio Giovinazzi was born on 14th December 1993 in Martina Franca, in the Italian province of Taranto. He began karting in 2006 and won that year’s Italian National Trophy as well as the European championship in the 60cc category.
He made the move to single-seaters aged 19, racing in the Formula Pilota in China in 2012. The following year, he competed in the European Formula 3 championship driving for the Double R Racing team and also took part in the Formula 3 Masters. In 2014 he raced for the British Carlin team and the next year he competed in the Russian round of the DTM at the wheel of an Audi RS5 entered by Phoenix Racing.
He made his GP2 debut in 2016 with the Prema Powerteam, taking his first victory in the category at the Grand Prix of Europe and finished second overall in the championship with a total of five wins to his name. For 2017, he takes on the role of Scuderia Ferrari’s third driver.
The prancing horse has returned to the all red livery for the new 2018 Ferrari Formula 1 car, which looks ready to challenge Mercedes-AMG and Red Bull Racing for the title once again. The cars chassis has seen extensive changes with a longer wheelbase than its predecessor, further revised aerodynamic package, updated cooling system and an even more aggressive sidepod design.
Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen remain as the two drivers at Scuderia Ferrari, and stand as a very experienced duo who have both won world championships. Vettel enters the new season with the edge of his team mate for the last few seasons having finished with more wins and points at the end of the year. Raikkonen will be eager to put the past behind him and hopefully once again show his full potential on the track for a strong showing.
"The SF71H represents an evolution of last year’s car, which was already a good project," explained Technical Director, Mattia Binotto. "We’ve tried to retain the strengths. Our strengths I would say first is aggressiveness in some of the concepts. We designed a car that was somehow performing very well on low speed circuits, but we knew we had to work on new areas of development. For example, trying to develop the car to be strong in performance on the high-speed circuits, but also on reliability."
