F1 News: Ferrari looking to poach key technical staff from RIVAL F1 team

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Ferrari looking to poach key technical staff from RIVAL F1 team

Ferrari look to strengthen their 2025 team by poaching technical staff from a rival team.

Originally written by GPFans Staff. This version is a translation.

Wednesday 13 March 2024 06:00

Ferrari are looking to poach staff members from their rivals as they look to create a winning car for Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.

The Scuderia pulled off a coup when they signed up the seven-time world champion for the 2025 season, and appear to be looking to go even further.

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Rumours also suggest they are trying to tempt Mercedes performance director Loïc Serra to join the outfit.

However, Mercedes are not the only rival team they to poach staff from, with Ferrari looking at the best brains at Red Bull after growing unrest in the team.

Ferrari look to Red Bull to strengthen their technical team

Despite the rumours engineers such as Newey have played down the chance of them going to Ferrari.

Newey has come close to joining Ferrari a few times, but has remained committed to Red Bull.

“My discussions in 2013 with Ferrari were purely out of frustration,” Newey said in a Beyond the Grid Podcast. “I really didn’t want to leave but we were in this position where Renault hadn’t produced a competitive turbo hybrid engine.

“But just as, for instance, working with Fernando and Lewis would have been fabulous. But it never happened. It’s just circumstance sometimes, that’s the way it is.”

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