Nico Rosberg finds Mercedes’ lack of F1 technical staff poaching ‘strange’

Nico Rosberg thinks it is “strange” that Mercedes haven’t looked to poach more technical staff from rival F1 teams amid their competitive struggles. 
Adrian Newey (GBR) Red Bull Racing Chief
Adrian Newey (GBR) Red Bull Racing Chief

While the likes o🎐f Aston Martin, Ferrari and McLaren have a♊ll made key signings from rival organisations, Mercedes have so far opted against following a similar path.

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Several top engineers have recently departed Red Bull, including Dan Fallows to Aston Martin, and veteran chief engineering officer Rob Marshall, who will leave the reigning world champions at the end of 20🦹23 to join McLaren. 

In response to a disappointing start to the season, Mercedes completed a major reorganisation of the their technical divisi༒on in April that saw James Allison return as technical director in a role swap with Mike Elliott. ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ;

2016 world champion Rosberg admitted he is surprised his former team has not moved to lure rival 𒈔staff.

“I’ve heard that Dan Fallows has 🧸also been quadrupled in salary plus an equity stake in the t🌼eam,” Rosberg told Sky.

“The teams are going for it to try and get the talent from Red Bull whཧich is ಌthe normal way in F1. That’s what always happens.

“Mercedes – strange that they haven’t been a little bit more active ther♎e [in poaching from rivals].

“The knowledge that you also get a🍰round a set of regulations when you take someone from the best team is just so valuable. Perhaps that’s a little surprising.”

Rosberg finds Mercedes’ lack of F1 technical staff poaching ‘strange’

According to Helmut Marko, Mercedes failed in an attempt to sign tech guru Aꦏdrian Newey before he committed his future to Red Bull.

“Then again, of course, they have incredible talent at Mercede🐻s and now the pictures from Monaco help a lot because thanks to Sergio [Perez]’s crash,” Rosberg continued🍷.

“There are beautiful pictures of the underbody of the car which they can now take froওm those pictures and create a whole CAD model and do a whole accurate design in the computer of what that car 💧is actually doing.

“That makes it very easy to start to really understand𝐆 and learn about that Red Bull car.”

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