Jerome D'Ambrosio he is ready to become the new head of the Ferrari Driver Academy. This is the indiscretion launched by Motorsport.com Italia regarding a new home purchase Ferrari. Frederic Vasseur, therefore, continues to be particularly active on the market and to look especially at Mercedes. In addition to Serra, and especially Lewis Hamilton, the French team principal has also got his hands on D'Ambrosio who is preparing to become the new head of the Ferrari Driver Academy project.
Vasseur, made for D'Ambrosio's arrival at Ferrari
The FDA project, as we know, is in the hands of Jock ClearHowever, he is also busy with the activity on the track and is unlikely to always be present and focused on the Academy project. Precisely for this reason, Vasseur immediately took action and chose to bring D'Ambrosio to Ferrari, now to be considered as a former responsible for the Mercedes junior program. For the engineer of the Brackley team, his story is quite particular: as told by Roberto Chinchero, in fact, it seems that just a year ago D'Ambrosio was identified as Wolff's perfect right-hand man. Things, however, have changed quite a bit over the past season, with D'Ambrosio preparing to to say goodbye to Mercedes at the end of 2024.
An increasingly interesting market
As is well known, the Formula 1 market is always subject to many changes. From the drivers' side, which could (after Hamilton's move to Ferrari) also see a possible farewell from Verstappen's Red Bull, to that of engineers. In this respect, Vasseur has been working for some time at Ferrari to try to bring fresh air and blood to Maranello. The Frenchman's goal, as told in recent interviews, is to bring new and motivated people to face the Ferrari challenge, which he sincerely hopes to be able to win again over the next few seasons. Vasseur is working on it and continues to act. In fact, it is not certain that the D'Ambrosio coup could be the last in a long purchasing campaign.
SOURCE: Motorsport.com