Ferrari are well placed to keep pushing in Formula 1 without late chairman Sergio Marchionne, even if his shoes are impossible to fill, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said during a press conference at Hungaroring. Marchionne died on Wednesday after succumbing to complications from recent surgery, the suddenness shocking the Formula 1 and business worlds. One of the auto industry’s most tenacious and respected chief executives, Marchionne played a prominent role in meetings to map out Formula One’s future and was a strong defender of Ferrari’s special status. “Sergio was a bigger personality than life, somebody who in the meetings and the Strategy Group and the negotiations with...
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