We were just waiting for the official announcement, which has finally arrived. In home Ferrari Laurent Mekies leaves the Scuderia in view of the 2024 season, the year in which it will become team principal of AlphaTauri.
Mekies leaves: it's official
The French he will not take part in the Belgian GP scheduled this weekend. The six months of gardening will begin for him - necessary for a prominent figure who leaves an F1 team - in order to arrive in Faenza in January. After several discussions between Vasseur and Horner, who also saw negotiations for a deal on the table real exchange of engineers, the agreement to free Mekies has been officially reached.
In his place will be Diego Ioverno
Making the announcement of the separation - also announcing who will be the replacement for the class of 1977 - it is Ferrari itself through a statement released on its social channels: "The Laurent Mekies' time at Ferrari comes to an end this weekend. The Ferrari track director will not take part in the Belgian GP and will leave Maranello after four and a half years. The whole team thanks Mekies for the work done during these years. Starting from Belgium, part of the work that Mekies carried out will be carried out by Diego Ioverno, who will become sporting director. He will be responsible for the sporting area and will have the task of maintaining relations with the FIA. Ioverno is a Ferrari veteran, having started working for the team 23 years ago. Together with his colleagues on the wall Matteo Togninalli, Head of Track Engineering, and Ravin Jain, Race Strategist, will have the task of bringing Frederic Vasseur back to the main team every weekend."
