Ferrari group boss Frederic Vasseur revealed the challenges confronted in securing two key recruits from Mercedes, stating that it took practically two years to finalize their strikes resulting from Components 1’s “irritating” guidelines on gardening depart.
The people in query are Loic Serra, previously Mercedes’ efficiency director, and Jerome d’Ambrosio, beforehand in command of Mercedes’ junior group. Serra joined Ferrari as chassis technical director in October, whereas Jerome d’Ambrosio assumed the position of deputy group principal and head of Ferrari’s driver academy.
The Scuderia has voiced its dissatisfaction with the restrictions posed by Components 1’s gardening depart laws. These guidelines mandate a transitional interval throughout which high-ranking personnel can’t begin work with their new group instantly after leaving their earlier employer. Whereas such provisions are customary throughout the grid and never unique to Ferrari, Vasseur emphasised that this information does little to mitigate the frustration brought on by such delays.
Thankfully for Ferrari, the scenario didn’t apply to their latest acquisition of seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, whose switch from Mercedes to the Maranello-based squad was unimpeded by gardening depart necessities.
Discussing Ferrari’s long-term technique and reflecting on their second-place end within the 2024 Constructors’ Championship, Ferrari group principal Frederic Vasseur shared his perspective in an interview with Autosprint, highlighting the significance of those key additions to the Maranello group’s ambitions for the long run: “We should preserve the identical strategy, work consistent with our DNA as we’re doing now. We all the time attempt to strengthen ourselves. As for the arrival of recent assets, it’s irritating that it takes so many months earlier than new hires can begin working with them. However the guidelines are these and they’re the identical for everybody, even when they create rigidity. Now we have new assets that we contracted a 12 months in the past and solely began six weeks in the past. It’s a really lengthy course of. Sources recruited final 12 months will contribute primarily to 2025 and 2026. To have folks like Jerome d’Ambrosio and Loic Serra within the group, it took virtually two years.” – the French supervisor identified.
“We should remember that on the one hand, with twenty-four Grands Prix a 12 months, now we have to work to resolve instant issues inside the subsequent two days; alternatively, as a substitute, now we have to consider different assets on a time stage of two or three years. We should determine the areas the place we have to enhance within the instant and assets in a position to work with the objective of the following season. We all know that if we rent a useful resource within the month of November, its work will likely be mirrored on the automotive two seasons later. My job is to maintain a foot in each challenge, instant or future.” – the Ferrari group boss continued.
Spanish driver Carlos Sainz left Ferrari to pave the way in which for Hamilton’s entry, signing a multi-year contract with Williams as a part of the transfer.
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