The news that arrived in the early evening today is only superficially unimportant. It actually has a very great value within Scuderia Ferrari HP.
The Prancing Horse team has announced that, starting from Monday 13 May, Xavi Marcos will leave his role to be assigned to other Prancing Horse projects.
Xavi Marcos is no small figure in the Red team’s garage. This is Charles Leclerc’s track engineer, the one we hear on the radio when the Ferrari pit wall talks to the Monegasque and vice versa. The Spaniard has held this role since 2019, Leclerc’s first season as an official Ferrari driver and starter, until next Monday.
The short statement was issued just before 7pm today and reads as follows.
“Organizational update: Scuderia Ferrari HP announces that, starting from Monday 13 May, Xavi Marcos will bring his great experience accumulated as an engineer in the Formula 1 team to the development of other important programs of the company”.
A few minutes after the announcement linked to Xavi Marcos, Ferrari also revealed the name of the engineer who will take his place starting from the Made in Italy and Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
This is Bryan Bozzi, an engineer who has been working in Maranello – for Ferrari – for 12 years now. Having joined the ROSsa factories in June 2012 as a wind tunnel and research and development engineer, Bozzi changed roles first in 2014, becoming Aero Track Group Engineer and then, from November 2018, Leclerc performance engineer.
After 6 years in this role, Bozzi was delegated to take over from Xavi Marcos as the Monegasque driver’s track engineer. Bozzi will begin working in his new role next weekend, when Formula 1 races at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola to contest the Made in Italy and Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
“Scuderia Ferrari HP announces that Bryan Bozzi, who has worked in the team for 10 years and is currently Charles Leclerc’s Performance Engineer, will now take on the role of track engineer for the Monegasque starting from the weekend in which the Grand Prix of Made in Italy and Emilia Romagna in Imola”, reads the press release issued by Ferrari.
This change reveals a clear need to improve some aspects of Leclerc’s box side. In Imola, therefore, there will be a new pairing which, in Ferrari, they hope will work better than the one that concluded his work last weekend in Miami.
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