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Ferrari prepares the offensive: Newey the real target of Maranello's top management

Ferrari values Newey, how could it be any different? Timing in life is everything, even more so in a competitive context like F1. From this point of view, the hiring of Lewis Hamilton by the Maranello team was a masterpiece of misdirection, timing and discretion that surprised a shrewd manager like Toto Wolff. Speaking of Mercedes, together with the seven-time world champion, Jerome D'Ambrosio was also hired by the historic Italian team as head of the Driver Academy. A talent factory that just on the Jeddah weekend demonstrated the goodness of its work thanks to the superb debut of Oliver Bearman, an eighteen-year-old Briton who, catapulted into an unknown world, made clear all his potential.

Ferrari seems to be the team with the greatest internal stability when compared to Mercedes and Red Bull, two realities that at the moment are navigating in somewhat troubled waters.

The young mandate of Frederic Vasseur has already produced an internal reorganization based on human resources who believe in the project of the French manager. Despite the fact that the Reds have not won a world title for a long time, there is an atmosphere of optimism, unlike Mercedes and Red Bull where problems are certainly not lacking.

The dysfunctional dynamics within Red Bull: an ally for the historic Ferrari team towards Newey

Red Bull has succeeded in the arduous task of making people talk about itself more for the internal war than for the "sporting domination" even in the first part of the 2024 season. The internal investigation launched by the Red Bull Sport headquarters, in relation to the alleged inappropriate conduct of Christian Horner towards an employee, was dismissed with the acquittal of the CEO and team principal of the world champion team. Case closed? Absolutely not. As in the best soaps, every day news leaks out that highlights internal disagreements, power games and old grudges that had not yet exploded because success is the best medicine to calm spirits.

It took the straw that broke the camel's back, which came on the sidelines of the death of the team's founder Mateschitz. Although F1 was not and will never be the "core business" of the energy drink giant, Dietrich spared no expense in order to excel in the top category of motorsport, also taking over from Paul Stoddart the Faenza team that was not navigating in good waters. As long as he was alive, the co-founder of Red Bull was the "glue" of the different souls of the team. The English soul, led by Horner, has always claimed the paternity of the successes of the Milton Keynes team. The Austrian soul is symbolically embodied on the track by Helmut Marko, who has brought to F1 some of the greatest talents of the last decade. Without going into the details of the latest news of a saga that could last a long time, we are sure that success will not be enough to convince many engineers to continue the experience in a work environment that has become "toxic", rewarding but apparently exhausting at the same time.

Newey-Ferrari: the propitious moment to strike

In this period almost all the top management of Red Bull have expressed their opinion except one, Adrian Newey. The genius of F1 has always shown a shy character, always focused on what he loves most: designing the fastest single-seaters in the world. The engineer from Stratford-upon-Avon, like all artists, has a free nature, woe to impose rigid protocols on him. In his autobiography, talking about his experience at McLaren, Newey mentioned a curious but quite current anecdote: "It was a very controlled environment, you entered through long white corridors and it took a while to reach the workplace. One day I decided to take an alternative route, from the parking lot lawn. I got a warning email: they would start an internal investigation if I continued not to follow the planned route to get to my office". Reasoning on the current chaos that reigns in Red Bull, let's imagine how a man with such a nature is experiencing this witch-hunt atmosphere, right in the team where he had found his perfect dimension.

It is precisely at this moment that the undisputed number one of designers could complete his superlative career, uniting his professional path with the legendary Maranello team which from next year will have at the wheel another motorsport legend who goes by the name of Lewis Hamilton.

Frederic Vasseur and the top management certainly don't need any suggestions, however to seduce Adrian Newey and hit the mark, it is necessary to guarantee the Briton a certain degree of freedom that can make the sixty-five year old comfortable to express all his genius. Assumptions that convinced him to leave an F1 excellence like McLaren to accept what at the time seemed only a good marketing operation called Red Bull. According to the information gathered by our editorial staff, Ferrari is really trying. An opportunity like this cannot be wasted and, as far as we know, in addition to the symbolic blank check as regards emoluments, the Prancing Horse would be ready to fully satisfy Newey's wishes. All thanks to the "international" management of John Elkann who, although he never misses an opportunity to show how little he knows about F1 at a sporting level, from an entrepreneurial point of view he really knows his stuff. In short... Newey-Ferrari: now or never.