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Apr262023 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Ferrari Mekies new boss Alpha Tauri to replace Franz Tost

Ferrari team boss Laurent Mekies will, as we reported, transfer to Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team, where he will take over the position of team boss, which is being vacated by Franz Tost. The exchange will take place at the end of this season, and Mekies could join the Faenza team earlier. Alpha Tauri will also be strengthened with the former official of the FIA, Peter Bayer, who will coordinate cooperation between the team's factories in Italy and Great Britain in the future. Franz Tost has led the team since 2006, when Red Bull bought the Minardi team and renamed it Toro Rosso. The Austrian experienced two victories under his leadership of the team, namely Sebastian Vettel in 2008, when the team was called Toro Rosso, and in 2020, when Pierre Gasly won as an Alpha Tauri racer. The team achieved both victories in

Apr252023 by Blaž ŠtremfeljNo Comments

Will the leading man of the Ferrari team move to Alfa Taura?

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Racing director of the Ferrari F1 team, Laurent Mekies, according to some rumors, is supposed to leave Maranello and move to Faenza, to Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team. After numerous personnel changes in the Ferrari team, at least one more should soon follow, at least if the reporting of the Italian Gazzetta dello Sport is to be believed, where they claim that the Frenchman will return to the team with which he started his career in Formula One. Mekies was said to be looking for a new employer immediately after Binotto's departure, although the latter was replaced by his friend Fred Vasseur, and Ferrari's decision that they did not consider him a candidate for the new team leader had a lot of weight in the decision. Gazzetta speculates that the Frenchman could move to Alpha Taura before the end of this season, but next season at the latest

Jul242022 by Blaž Štremfelj1 How to

Ferrari: There is a possibility of Leclerc's engine failure

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The sporting boss of the Ferrari team, Laurent Mekies, admitted that in the camp of the team from Maranello they did not forget about the engine failure that prevented Charles Leclerc from winning twice this year. Leclerc was on his way to victory at the Spanish Grand Prix when the drive unit of his Ferrari failed, a similar fate followed in the race in Azerbaijan and the fear of a new breakdown is also present in the race in France, where the Monaco man will chase victory from the best starting position. "The fear is always there," Mekies said. "After a few breakdowns while you're leading the race, you can't forget that fear. So we've already lost races this year, and solving problems is a long process. We know that we can't solve problems overnight, so we're all trying our best to do everything, to prevent them with what we have.Fear is pr