F1 is heavily influenced by business and money though, Ferrari don't want to be paying millions of pounds to a well known, multiple world champion who is the face of all of their marketing if he becomes a laughing stock.
I look at the comments sections of F1 news sites and people are laughing at Ferrari right now.
We all know Vettel's results are they are very rare wins and more frequent spins, retirements, mistakes, etc. He is the laughing stock anyways no matter what their managers do or try to make it look.