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Fifty-one-year-old Pat Fry, who has so far been the deputy technical manager of the Ferrari team, is transferring to the Manor-Marussia team with the new season. The latter used Ferrari engines, including last season, and they are starting to use Mercedes engines with the new season. Pat Fry worked on the McLaren team in the 2010s, so Mercedes engines are no stranger to him and he is therefore happy to be on the team, as they say he will be able to help develop the car. In XNUMX, he joined the Ferrari team, where they said goodbye to him at the end of last year due to reorganization and organizational changes. As previously reported, Nikolas Tombazis, the design boss of the Ferrari team, recently joined the Manor-Marussia team and will continue the same work in the new team.

Roberto Merhi is confident he will return to the Manor Marussie race car next weekend at the China Grand Prix. The 2009-year-old led to the finish line in his first race in Malaysia, albeit three laps behind winner Sebastian Vettl. Looking back, he was overjoyed when he learned just days before the opening race that he would be racing this season. “It helped me a lot to have the team believe in me,” he told Spanish Diario Sport. "I raced behind him back in 3 in the F1 Series, where I competed against Valtteri Bottas, Jules Bianchi, Daniel Ricciardo and others who also achieved Formula XNUMX." The performance in China is not official yet, but he says everyone on the team believes he will drive on the track. “I was enthusiastic about the trust, even though I don’t have the support of the sponsors

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Pat Fry, Ferrari's deputy technical manager for the new season at Manor-Marussia

Merhi confident he will race in China