Ferrari has announced the signings of Loic Serra and Jerome d’Ambrosio from Mercedes to bolster its Formula 1 engineering and management teams.
Serra, formerly the performance director at Mercedes, will take on the head of chassis performance engineering role at Ferrari on 1 October and will report to technical chief Enrico Cardile.
As revealed by Autosport earlier this year, ex-F1 driver d’Ambrosio also leaves Mercedes to join Ferrari – where he is also set to start on 1 October - as deputy team principal to Fred Vasseur, thus exiting his role at Brackley as driver development director.
The two will reunite with Lewis Hamilton when the seven-time F1 champion joins Ferrari in 2025.
Turns out spending three years calling your car a shit box isn’t best for morale.
It seems like having a Frenchman at the helm of Ferrari could once again pave the way for success.
Once more, Mercedes is losing people, and with all these major departures, their outlook seems rather bleak.