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As in all self-respecting sporting seasons, Formula 1 is also going crazy with its market in turmoil. And we're not talking about drivers, since Hamilton's move to Maranello for 2025 made the trumpets ring more than a month ago. Let's talk about technicians.
Let's start at the beginning: the topic of technicians is triggered by the (yet to be demonstrated) diaspora that is apparently occurring in Red Bull after the well-known Horner-gate. Once the accusations against the team principal were dismissed, it seemed that everyone in the reigning multi-champion team was on the move: Verstappen, Helmut Marko, Newey-the-Genius himself… Now that everything seems more muted, the desire to emigrate for others lidi seems to reach other levels in the team. And here we are, precisely, with the technicians.
So far, in the absence of official announcements, we are following a logical thread. And this logical thread says that these technicians about to emigrate, with all their winning know-how from these last few seasons, are more than attractive commodities on the entire Formula 1 market, which would be more than happy to take home someone from valid with the not despicable side effect of weakening the Anglo-Austrian team. And so far, as we said, the reasoning stands. But in recent days we have gone further. Some Italian newspapers, immediately taken up abroad, wrote in black and white the names and surnames of Red Bull technicians that Maranello is apparently approaching, if not actually negotiating. Too bad it's not true.
And then, another reasoning: we are sure that today's Ferrari, finally strong in a single-seater not capable (yet) of fighting on equal terms with Red Bull but clearly ahead of the other competing teams, wants to revolutionize an internal fabric that it's working? This SF-24, finally coherent and constant, finally predictable compared to the PC data and above all drivable without too many surprises by its pilots, is a beautiful technical reality of the pool led by Cardile (chassis and aerodynamics) and Gualtieri (engines, to quote an ancient term). It is the fruit of continuity, a value that finally plays a key, non-negotiable role in Maranello. Are you sure that it is worth putting all this stability at risk with the inclusion of one, two, three, four technicians who are certainly valuable (Red Bull winning, etc. etc.) but who would bring discontent at home where today things are working well?
The images of Jeddah last race weekend say the opposite. Carlos Sainz tired, limping after an appendectomy surgery which he had undergone a few hours earlier and yet firmly intending to follow the Grand Prix from a stool in the back garage with John Elkann, and in the end exultant for the beautiful performance of his replacement Olivier Bearman, they gave a beautiful image of sport, of unity, of attachment beyond the professional.
Are you sure that Ferrari wants to put this entire red order at risk for a handful of technicians who are certainly valid, but not too well known and above all not so necessary?
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