It’s not only drivers who are coveted and could potentially change teams ahea💟d of the 2024🌃 F1 season.

Crucial staff members and engineers are also approached to swap teams in t🎉he hope that their expertise can add performanc෴e to next year’s car.

“When we talk about F1 peopleꩵ think that proble♕ms can be solved in a week,” Vasseur explained to . 

“But it is like sailing♏ on a very large ship and estabﷺlishing a change of course: it is not immediate. 

“🅠Today the personnel market in the GPs is like that of football players, the top 50 technicians have contracts of three years and more. 

“To take them away you have to wait for [their contracts] to expire or pay hefty pe꧂nalties or negotiate so 𝓰that they are released ahead of time. In short, it's complicated. 

“With an aggravating 🧜circumstance for us compared to the British teams: since the teams there are clos🎶e, if you hire someone he can keep the same house, the same school for his children and the same lifestyle. 

“For an engineer to come here, however, we must first convince him, then his wife and the fo♏llowing week the children..."

Laurent Mekies is a high-profile departure from Ferrari, he has left to ꦐbecome Alph🐈aTauri’s new team principal.

It is expected that he will begin his new job on January 1, 2024, after a period of ga🎀rdening leave - which is fairly 🐭standard practice in the F1 paddock.

Similarly, Ferrari have recruited Mercedes’ performance director Loic𝐆 Serra and hope to negotiate an early start date so he 🐷can get to work quickly.

"We have hired about 25 people, but we are looking for more,” Vasseur explaineꦿ🔴d. 

“None are already working at the Scuderia. We have signed a leading name [Loic Serra], which sꦺhould start on 1 January 2025 but we are trying to [bring forward the time]. 

“How can I convince Toဣto Wolff to release him sooner? I'll try when we're on the☂ boat together!

“However, as happened with Mekies, sometimes you have people who leave Ferrari, situations cross and you can negotiate on dates.&nb💫sp;

“Let's✤ say that this soon became the main part of my work at Ferrari. You have to crඣeate good relationships and convince people to move. 

“The first ones you take are the most difficult, then the others seeing them follo♉w suit.”