Ahead of this weekend’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Azerbaijan Grand Prix, AlphaTauri confirmed they had signed Ferrar⭕i sporting director Mekies to replace Fran♐z Tost as team principal🐼 ꦑwhen he steps down at the end of the 2023 season.

Despite giving a date for 67-year-old Tost’s depart🎉ure, AlphaTauri did not specific exactly when Mekies would takeover a🉐s team principal. 

And Vasseur, who made a winter switch from Alfa R🏅omeo to repla🌺ce Mattia Binotto as Ferrari boss, stressed that the “details” of Mekies’ exit are yet to be agreed. 

“First of all, I think it’s a mega opportunity for Laurent, considering also that I have a good relationship with him. And I won’t block Laurent, for sure,” Vasseur said on Thursꩵday. 

“Then I think it’s also – if you speak about timeline – I think Toro Rosso [AlphaTau🌠ri] was probably a bit aggressive on the press release, and we have a long-term contract with Laurent and we’ll have to discuss about details.”

Vasseur would not be drawn on the൲ exact length of a potential ‘gardening leave’ period that would need to be observed before Mekies could complete his move to AlphaTauri. 

“We have a long-term contract with him and we’ll have to find the best for Ferrari𝓰,” he said. 

“And d🐼ependin🌟g on when he will move to Toro Rosso [AlphaTauri], we will decide the end of the collaboration. We’ll do it properly and the relationship is very positive.”

In March, Vasseur strongly denied speculation 🍬that Mekies could leave F🃏errari. 

When that wa🅘s put to🧜 him, Vasseur responded: “But I think the proposal was not the same! And I can’t perfectly put myself in Laurent’s position.

“Buꦓt I think it’s quite impossible to refuse, when you are in this business, to become team principal now.”

He added: “I’m there to protect Ferrari’s interests, and it’s Ferrari first and it will 🍷always be Ferrari first, it means that I will have to discuss about the conditions of this.”

Mekies is 🍃thไe latest high-profile figure to quit Ferrari amid a lacklustre start to 2023, but Vasseur was keen to downplay the situation. 

“To lose two persons out of ꦆ1꧟600, it’s not a drama,” he said.

“You know that theꦇ power of the team is always🅺 more important, and the power of the group, than the individuals.

“We have to keep this in mind, that the most important is the𒅌 group. The group is there, we are recruiting massiꦓvely, we are not communicating that but we are recruiting massively.

“And we will do that step by step because you💧 can’t put an organisation in place in two weeks. You know perfectl🅠y the system of the recruitment in F1, it’s quite long and painful.

“But we are working on it. Don’t expect that one day you will have a new organisation. It will be step by step an🧸d we are putting something in plac🍌e.”