Mercedes bolster F1 technical team by poaching key Ferrari figures

Mercedes have added to their F1 technical team with two key signings from Ferrar🔜i.

Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton battle in Saudi Arabia
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton battle in Saudi Arabia

⭕Mercedes have bolstered 🍌their technical team by signing two key figures from Ferrari.

As initially reported by the , Mercedes are set to sign Simone Resta, whose most recent role was at Haas after a number of ꦡyears at Ferrari.

Resta will join Mercedes as thei🦩r strategic development director, and thus will work closel😼y with technical director James Allison.

Enrico Sampo will also make the switch from Ferrari to Mercedes, exchanging his driver simulator r🅺ole to become head of performance software applications🧔.

Sampo has held various roles at Ferrari since 2011, before focusing on the team’s simulator in 🌳the last four years.

It i✅s understood that both Resta and Sampo will enter a period of gardening leave, and are unlikely to join Mercedes before the 2025 season.

It’s welcome newꦐs for Mercedes, which recently have been losing staff to Ferrari꧟.

Superstar driver168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton will make the move in place of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz for 2025, while Jerome d’Ambrosio is set ꦗto leave his role with Mercedes for Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton battle in Saudi Arabia
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton battle in Saudi Arabia

Per📖formance Director Loic Serra is also expected to join Ferrari as part of a busy recruitment drive by team principal Frederic Vass🌺eur.

The two teams have had contraꦿst❀ing fortunes at the start of 2024.

Ferrari have been Red Bull’s closest challenger in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, seeing their drivers complete the podium behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez in both races.

On th𒁏e other hand, Mercedes have struggled 🌞relatively, particularly in Jeddah, where their deficit in high-speed corners resurfaced.

M🌃ercedes have struggled with this set of re🌄gulations, taking just one victory since the start of 2022.

Their sole 🧸victory comes after years of domination from the start of 2014 up until 2021 where they remained unbeaten in the constructors’ ch𓃲ampionship.

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