Red Bull has been making all the noise last year since their current engine supplier Honda announced its retirement from Formula 1 at the end of this season. This marked the beginning of a series of events in which they both announced their intention to start their own engine operation and to hire key members of their title competitor Mercedes. And the way in which they proceeded didn’t really work with Mattia Binotto.
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Red Bull let the whole world know they snapped Ben Hodgkinson from Mercedes. He becomes the technical director of the powertrain project at Milton Keynes headquarters.
Formula 1 F1 – Portuguese Grand Prix – Algarve International Circuit, Portimao, Portugal – Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff welcomes FIA / Handout via REUTERS
For Ferrari team boss Binotto, however, it is nothing new to separate important employees from his competitors. You have been doing this for a while. However, unlike Red Bull, they prefer to stay in the background.
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“In the past three years, more than 30 engineers from other teams have been hired. Red Bull announces that it is more of a buying campaign. We are doing this without disclosing it, ”Binotto told Corriere Della Sera. (Quotes from Italian translated with Google)
Mattia Binotto shares Ferrari’s progress in 2022
Binotto has not hesitated to admit that Ferrari will focus on its maximum resources for the next season. The new technical regulations offer them the opportunity to take their throne again. How is the car going?
“We have come to a point where important decisions about aerodynamic concepts are being made. In a month they will be defined and then we will start producing the first pieces, ”said Binotto.
Binotto isn’t sure if the new regulations will stop Mercedes-Esque dominance
The main motive behind these new rules is to promote a better racing spectacle. To this end, the FIA aims to bring the teams closer together while promoting a more proactive bike-to-bike battle. But Binotto is skeptical that it will actually become a reality –
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“They will not all be close, in the beginning this goal will not be achieved, then over time we will see how close they will get. The second goal of the 2022 regulations was to make overtaking easier. I am not convinced that we will get there. “
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SPIELBERG, AUSTRIA: Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain drives the (44) Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes W10, Charles Leclerc from Monaco leads the (16) Scuderia Ferrari SF90 on the track during qualifying for the Austrian F1 Grand Prix on the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. (Photo by Lars Baron / Getty Images)
A revolution is taking place behind the scenes of the big F1 teams. It will be exciting to see who will win this technical war in the next few years.
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