Revealed: Identities of four key Red Bull engineers targeted by Ferrari

Fe🧜rrari are interested in recruiting four important Red Bull employees

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB20. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2, Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah, Saudi
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB20. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2, Saudi Arabian…

The identities of four impoꦰrtant Red Bull engineers that Ferrari are trying to recruit have been reported.

  • Enrico Balbo - head of aerodynamics

  • David Mor🃏gan - ae▨ro trackside performance team leader

  • Ben Waterhouse - head of performance engineering

  • Alessandro Germani - aerodynamics development team lead🔥er

Italian newspaper reports that the quartet are the subject of𝓀 interest, and contact, from Ferrari.

The dra💞ma and uncertainty at Red Bull means that other teams have “moved with great timing” to contact some of their crucial employees.

A year ago🅷 Fer🍰rari failed to recruit Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache, and they have repeatedly been unable to tempt Adrian Newey to Italy.

But over the course of the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix it was revealed that Ferrari are interested in four oth𒁏er Red Bull members of staff🎀.

Enrico Balbo, Red Bull’s head of aerodynamics, is Italian and was first contacted by Ferrari at last year’s Azerbaijan Grand🧸 Prix in April.

David Morಌgan, Red Bull’s aero trackside performance team leader, has worked with the Milton Keynes team for six years since le🐓aving Williams.

Ben Waterhouse, the head of performance ꦺengineering, would know every intricacy of F1’s most dominant car.

Alessandroꦚ Germani, also from Italy, is reportedly an expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

Red Bull CEO met Ferrari president in Jeddah

John Elkann (ITA) FIAT Chrysler Automobiles Chairman. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2, Saudi Arabian Grand Prix,
John Elkann (ITA) FIAT Chrysler Automobiles Chairman. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 2,…

Intriguingly, 🌃Red Bull CEO Oliver Mintzlaff was spotted in private talks wওith Ferrari president John Elkann in the paddock at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Talks took place within the Red Bull hospitality.

Italian media believes the meeting was to discuss the Concorde Agreement rathe𝐆r🐻 than the four Red Bull employees who Ferrari are looking at.

Elkann has “skilfully tried🐽 to perceive, first-hand” the possible problems that exist within Red Bull over the past few weeks, Gazzetta report.

His presence in Saudi Arabia was a “strong signal” of “closen🎃ess” to the Ferrari F1 team, and also of “direct involvement in the team's growth project”.

Should Ferrari be successful in tempting any of their targets to Italy? Then🐽 they would join Lewis Hamilton,who will swap Mercedes for Ferrari in 2025.

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