Ferrari surprisingly replace Charles Leclerc's race engineer
New race engineer from Imola onwards for Charles Leclerc in Ferrari 🐽reshuffle

Charles 🐬Leclerc will work alongside a new racꦚe engineer from next weekend at the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Xavi Marcos will be replaced by Bryan Bozzi from Imola onwards, Ferrari have a🍎nnounced.
A Ferrari statement read: "Scuderia Ferrari HP announces 💝that, as of Monday 13 May, Xavi Marcos will bring his valuable experience gained as a race engineer with the Formula 1 team to tಞhe development of other important company programmes.
"Scuderia Ferrari 🏅HP announces that Bryan Bozzi, who has worked in the team for ten years, currently as Performance Engineer to Charles Leclerc, will now take on the role of his Race Engineer as from next weekend’s Gran Premio del Made in Italy and dell’Emilia-Romagna at൲ Imola."
Marcos, who has been alongside Leclerc since his debut season at Ferrari, hasꦯ been moved into another job within the company.
Although their relationship was good, there were occasional flashpoints which hinted at problems with Fe🐽rrari's strategy.
Last year at the Spanish Grand Prix, confusion between Leclerc and Marcos♏ via team radio resulted in a botched tyre strategy.
Notably in Saudi Arabia last year, Leclerc fumed with Marcos on th𒀰e team radio.
Team 🍸principal Fred Vasseur will see the change of race engineers as another positive step in Ferrari's growth.
Until Lando Norris and McLaren's💟 win last weekend in Miami, Ferrari had been responsible for the only two grand prix wins by a team apart from Red Bull since 2022 (both via Ca𝓀rlos Sainz).
Lꦦeclerc will welcome Lewis Hamilton as his teammate next year.
But, first, he must adjust to hearing a new voice viꦺa the team radiꦉo, starting from next weekend in Italy.

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