Loic Serra is the new technical director of Ferrari

Loic Serra it’s the new one technical director from the Ferrari. The French mechanical engineer, born in 1972, former performance director of the Mercedesannounced by the Scuderia in May to be operational from 1 October, takes on the functions of Enrico Cardilethe 49 year old from Arezzo who after twenty years left Maranello to go to Aston Martin where the arrival of the former Red Bull aerodynamicist should be announced shortly, Adrian Newey to whom Ferrari, along with other teams, has been courting in recent months. But between a stellar salary (the green one seems to have put 25 million on the table for the English genius) and internal balances at Maranello, the love story never began.

The new Ferrari setup

Serra, after studying in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, after university, since 1996, has worked for the Michelin and then for the Formula 1 teams Bmw-Clean and Mercedes, covering a series of roles in the vehicle dynamics sector before being promoted to performance director: he has therefore taken part in the entire winning cycle of the Stars and Lewis Hamilton, the two will meet again next year in Maranello. Serra, who will report directly to the team principal, Fred Vasseurwill be headed by the Chassis Project Engineering divisions, entrusted to Fabio Montague; vehicle performance, entrusted to Marco Adurno; aerodynamics, entrusted to Diego Tondi; Track Engineering, affidata a Matthew Togninalli e Chassis Operations, affidata a Diego Iovernowho also maintains the role of sporting director. The role of technical director of the power unit continues to be entrusted to Henry Gualtieriwho reports directly to Vasseur.

D’Ambrosio’s role

Together with Serra, who has never held the position of technical director in his career, he will also be working with the team from October Jerome D’AmbrosioBelgian, born in 1985, also coming from Mercedes, who will become the deputy team principal, reporting directly to Fred Vasseur. D’Ambrosio will also be appointed head of the Scuderia Ferrari Driver AcademyMaranello’s young driver program, a role he also held at Mercedes. A former driver, he has one victory in GP2, three in Formula E, and 20 Formula 1 GPs under his belt, raced between 2011 and 2012, first for Marussia and then for Lotus. He retired at the end of the 2019-20 season and at Mercedes he worked alongside the team principal, Toto Wolffso much so that he seemed destined to succeed him. Instead, he took the road to Maranello.

Ferrari, Constructors’ Dream

The announcement of the new technical reorganization of Ferrari was expected, announced and has been respected on time. Moreover never so flourishing, after the success last week at Monza con Charles Leclerc and 4th place of Carlos Sainz in a race that highlighted a great team strategy. And with two races to come, Baku and Singapore, where the red one is a candidate among the favourites and has the chance to collect many points in the climb for the Builders title where it is currently third, 31 points behind McLaren ea – 39 from Red Bull in the lead but in serious technical crisis. There are 8 GPs left in total until the end of the season. There is room and new strength for the chase to the top.