Formula 1 | Mercedes secures Simone Resta for 2025

La Mercedes goes to market at home Ferrari. The Brackley team has in fact secured it Simone subtraction starting from the 2025 season. The former chief designer of the Maranello stable, remembered for giving birth to the SF71-H of 2018, a competitive car for much of the world championship, has ended its collaborative relationship with Haas at the beginning of 2024, and after a gardening period which presumably will expire at the end of this year, it will go to Great Britain to support James Allison, technical director of Mercedes and already connects in Italy until 2016.

Mercedes: Enrico Sampò also arrives from Ferrari

The engineer from Imola will be responsible for the development strategy of the Anglo/German team, which after years of domination in the hybrid era, is having great difficulty in establishing itself with the technical regulations which see ground effect single-seaters, and the gearbox Elliott/Allison to the technical direction has not yet borne fruit. At Mercedes there was a need for such a change, and after the technical transfer made by Ferrari, some positions were no longer available, and for this reason Resta went elsewhere. He will also follow him Enrico Sampo, responsible for the Rossa simulation department, a department that has grown a lot lately as demonstrated by the quality of the project that saw the birth of the SF-24, and in Brackley he will be responsible for software applications. For him too, a gardening period which should expire at the end of 2024.