Ferrari crew boss Frederic Vasseur revealed the challenges confronted in securing two key recruits from Mercedes, stating that it took almost two years to finalize their strikes because of Method 1’s “irritating” guidelines on gardening go away.
The people in query are Loic Serra, previously Mercedes’ efficiency director, and Jerome d’Ambrosio, beforehand in command of Mercedes’ junior crew. Serra joined Ferrari as chassis technical director in October, whereas Jerome d’Ambrosio assumed the position of deputy crew principal and head of Ferrari’s driver academy.
The Scuderia has voiced its dissatisfaction with the restrictions posed by Method 1’s gardening go away rules. These guidelines mandate a transitional interval throughout which high-ranking personnel can’t begin work with their new crew instantly after leaving their earlier employer. Whereas such provisions are commonplace throughout the grid and never unique to Ferrari, Vasseur emphasised that this information does little to mitigate the frustration attributable to such delays.
Fortuitously for Ferrari, the scenario didn’t apply to their current acquisition of seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton, whose switch from Mercedes to the Maranello-based squad was unimpeded by gardening go away necessities.
Discussing Ferrari’s long-term technique and reflecting on their second-place end within the 2024 Constructors’ Championship, Ferrari crew principal Frederic Vasseur shared his perspective in an interview with Autosprint, highlighting the significance of those key additions to the Maranello crew’s ambitions for the longer term: “We should keep the identical method, work consistent with our DNA as we’re doing now. We at all times 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. Assets recruited final 12 months will contribute primarily to 2025 and 2026. To have individuals like Jerome d’Ambrosio and Loic Serra within the crew, it took nearly two years.” – the French supervisor identified.
“We should remember that on the one hand, with twenty-four Grands Prix a 12 months, we’ve got to work to unravel quick issues throughout the subsequent two days; alternatively, as a substitute, we’ve got 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 quick and assets in a position to work with the purpose of the subsequent season. We all know that if we rent a useful resource within the month of November, its work might be mirrored on the automobile two seasons later. My job is to maintain a foot in each challenge, quick or future.” – the Ferrari crew boss continued.
Spanish driver Carlos Sainz left Ferrari to pave the best way for Hamilton’s entry, signing a multi-year contract with Williams as a part of the transfer.
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