Less than a year after leaving Mercedes, Mike Elliott could return to Formula 1 and Ferrari is reportedly a decision.
Although the Scuderia were the favorites to sign Adrian Newey after the Briton announced that he would be parting ways with Red Bull next season, several rumors have since emerged that have disrupted talks.
The most recent is Aston Martin’s $100 million bid to the design legend, and Autosprint says an announcement is due in September.
However, Ferrari is reportedly former Mercedes technical director Mike Elliott, who left the team in October last year.
His departure ended a 23-year Formula 1 run for Elliott that began in 2000 and saw the Briton play a key role in Mercedes’ run of seven championship doubles from 2014 to 2020, with the team also retaining the manufacturer’s name in 2021.
Mercedes said in a statement at the time that Elliott had “decided to take a break from the game in the coming months, before deciding on his next challenge. “
This decision, according to the Italian edition of Motorsport, could be made soon.
After Enrico Cardile to Aston Martin, and now also Newey, the publication claims that Ferrari has a “Mr. X” in the brain to play the role of Cardile and that he is “not Italian”. There are “discussions” that Elliott would be named “Cardile’s heir. “
Add to that the fact that Lewis Hamilton will join Ferrari next season, while veteran Mercedes engineer Loic Serra takes up his new role as Ferrari’s director of chassis functionality engineering in October, the publication believes that all the symptoms point to Elliott being “there”. many. ” Profiles of this caliber that can be found on the market.
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Team boss Fred Vasseur, however, gave no indication of who would update Cardile at the Belgium Grand Prix.
“I will take up the position during the summer break because it’s the easiest thing to do, but right after the summer break we will announce the new organisation,” the team boss told the media, adding PlanetF1. comArray.
“But at the end of the day, we have an organization of more than two hundred people driving those cars, and with another two hundred people, the departure of one user is not a drama.
Pressed on his list, he replied, “I have some names with letters. “
Elliott is on landscaping leave lately and would be free to start with a new team early next year.
Meanwhile, Diego Tondi appears to have let the cat out of the bag regarding his promotion to Ferrari, something the team has yet to confirm.
He used the social network LinkedIn to evolve his profile from head of aerodynamics to head of aerodynamics at Ferrari.
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