After Lewis Hamilton and Co. Losing Out on Key Figure, McLaren & Alpine Boss’ Presence in Ferrari’s Den Sends Rumor Mill into Overdrive

The Daniel Ricciardo to AlphaTauri saga might have captured everyone’s attention and the headlines. However, plenty is going on in the background for the teams in this silly season. The F1 silly season is in full swing since the end of the 2022 season but on the management front. The teams are hard at each other’s throats with a lot of engineers swapping all across the grid. Mercedes, the most successful constructor in the last few decades, has come out on the losing side of the recent transfer. After Lewis Hamilton and Co. lost a key figure to Ferrari, McLaren, and Alpine bosses’ visit to the Ferrari compound is sending the rumor mill into overdrive.

For the unaware, Mercedes has lost engineers and top-level staff to Aston Martin and Williams in recent months. Ferrari was suffering the safe fate recently. They lost David Sanchez to McLaren and sporting director Laurent Mekies to AlphaTauri. So after Ferrari was unsuccessful in prizing away technical director Pierre Wache away from Red Bull, they turned their attention to the Mercedes man.

Ferrari poached Mercedes’ performance director Loic Serra in hopes of strengthening their future. Ferrari’s boss has been walking the extra mile for the team and Serra will do the same as he will work on 2025 and 2026 cars. However, following this mega news, Ferrari’s hospitality section welcomed some unexpected visitors.

As reported by Formula Racers on Twitter, Alpine boss Otmar Szafnauer paid a long visit to the Italian team’s hospitality section. Zak Brown also paid a quick visit.

Now no one is sure what this all means in the managerial transfer market. As seen just toward the end of 2022, the team bosses can have a huge merry-go-round. However, these visits are definitely sending the rumor mills into overdrive. However, this domino effect started with the appointment of Frederic Vasseur, who is taking the Italian team away from its core.

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Lewis Hamilton and Co. fell victim to Ferrari’s recent ideological change

Ferrari’s hiring of Frederic Vassuer started a domino effect that affected Mercedes. However, this might  be the first of many as the Ferrari boss is still int the market for top-level executives and not necessarily Italian.

Leo Turrini revealed that and said “Know that the Red will campaign for purchases on the market of prestigious technicians. In fact, Fred Vasseur, the head of the racing department, the country curator mentioned above, has obtained the ok of the company leaders: he will be able to look abroad for those professionals that will have to integrate and strengthen Ferrari’s structure. Of course the French manager couldn’t talk about it in the meeting he had with us scribblers. But he is already moving: behind that suburban praeon air”

These changes will not make an instant impact, but rest assured, Ferrari is doing everything possible to make a change and get itself back to the top.

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