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Binotto admits he questioned his role at Ferrari

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto has admitted questioning his role while Formula One's oldest and most successful team endure one of their worst seasons in decades.

Ferrari has not won a world championship since taking the constructors' title in 2008 and is languishing in fifth place overall ahead of a home Italian Grand Prix at Monza that threatens to plumb new depths.

In Belgium last weekend, Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel failed to qualify or finish in the top 10 and the team are now a massive 203 points adrift of dominant Mercedes after seven races.

Binotto, who has spent his whole career at Maranello, told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper on Friday that Ferrari chairman John Elkann had called him to understand why it had gone so badly.