Mercedes bolster F1 technical team by poaching key Ferrari figures

Mercedes have added to t🐻heir F1 techni𓆉cal team with two key signings from Ferrari.

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 Ferrཧari.

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

Resta will join Mercedes as their strategic development director, andꦗ thus will work closely with technical director James Alli▨son.

Enrico Sampo will also make the switch from Ferrari 𓃲to Mercedes, exchanging his driver simulator role to become head of performance software applications.

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

It is understood that both Resta and Sampo will enter a perioꩵd of gardening l🐠eave, and are unlikely to join Mercedes before the 2025 season.

It’s welco🔜me news for Mercedes, which recently have been losing staff to Ferra🍷ri.

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 Jܫerome d’Ambrosio is set to leave 𓆉his role with Mercedes for Ferrari.

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

Performance Director Loic Serra is also expected to join Fღerrari as part of a busy recruitment drive by t🐼eam principal Frederic Vasseur.

The tw🐻o teams have had contrasting fortunes at th💞e 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 the other hand, Mercedes 🌼have struggled relatively, pa𒈔rticularly in Jeddah, where their deficit in high-speed corners resurfaced.

💟Mercedes have struggle🍬d with this set of regulations, 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’ championship♏.

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