Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has said the team will announce its revamped technical structure after the summer break, but insists technical director Enrico Cardile leaving for Aston Martin is no drama for the organisation.
After weeks of speculation, it was announced earlier this month that Cardile would be leaving the Scuderia to join Aston Martin as F1 technical director.
With no immediate replacement yet announced, Vasseur has temporarily taken over Cardile’s responsibilities. Meanwhile, the French boss says he is creating a revamped technical structure to make the team a star, which will be announced after F1 closes in August, with Vasseur saying:
I can announce that after the summer holidays we will announce the new event. It’s not drama for us. At the end of the day, we have a team of more than 200 people working on this (project) or 300 people working on the other. It is not a person. I always push to explain that individuals are less important than the team. It’s true when you recruit someone and it’s true when you lose someone.
Vasseur insists the team’s progress after a poor 2023 season shows it has strength in depth, saying:
We showed that we worked as a team in a difficult time. Again, I don’t want to focus on one single fact, but in 12 months we have closed 2/3 of the gap to the winners. Thanks to the work done in the factory as well. It means I have enormous confidence in them.
We definitely have to continue and I’m not happy with the result, there’s no mistaking it. I’m not happy to be 20 seconds behind someone, but last year we finished 65 seconds behind someone.
Source: www.autoblog.gr
