De Woking para Maranello

Ferrari snap up ex-McLaren employees

The reshuffling at Ferrari continues and they have snapped up a number of former McLaren employees, according to a report.

The Maranello squad have been well off the pace of Red Bull the past few seasons and the team have responded by making changes to their technical department over the past year or so.

Pat Fry, who worked for McLaren from 1993 until 2010, was appointed technical director for the chassis division midway through 2011 and since then several former Woking employees have made their way to Ferrari.

According to F1 journalist Joe Saward's blog, "a number of aerodynamicists, notably senior aerodynamicist Rupad Darekar, who has worked at McLaren for the last 10 years" have joined Ferrari.

"He is joined by Greece's Ioannis Veloudis, Italy's Giacomo Tortora and Britain's Lawrence Hodge. In addition to these engineers Fry has also lured away Jonathan Heal, a senior stress engineer at McLaren for the last seven years."

(fonte: F1Planet)

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Nos últimos dias eu tenho lido muito sobre a chegada de várias engenheros da McLaren a Maranello. Não postei ou comentei nada porque não havia visto em nenhuma fonte, digamos, mais confiável...

Eu, já disse e repito, Fry é minha esperença, junto com Alonso claro, para reerguer a Ferrari. E se ele trouxer o que a McLaren tem de competência, melhor!

Alonso sempre disse que aprendeu muito enquanto esteve em Woking, então que tal seria tê-los agora em Maranello??

Eu espero que as coisas funcionem bem e que estes profissionais, a comando de Fry, traga o que falta a Ferrari: competência, profissionalismo e sucesso!

Nós fãs e Alonso seremos gratos para sempre!

Bjinhus, Tati