Fred Vasseur, the Ferrari team principal, has offered a reality-check into how the F1 silly season really works.
“But it is like sailing on a very large ship and establishing a change of course: it is not immediate.
“Today the personnel market in the GPs is like that of football players, the top 50 technicians have contracts of three years and more. “To take them away you have to wait for [their contracts] to expire or pay hefty penalties or negotiate so that they are released ahead of time. In short, it's complicated.
“With an aggravating circumstance for us compared to the British teams: since the teams there are close, if you hire someone he can keep the same house, the same school for his children and the same lifestyle.“For an engineer to come here, however, we must first convince him, then his wife and the following week the children..."
Laurent Mekies is a high-profile departure from Ferrari, he has left to become AlphaTauri’s new team principal.
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