Frédéric Vasseur discusses recruitment at Ferrari
After achieving its second best weekend of the year by finishing 4th and 5th, Ferrari gains a bit of ground on its direct competitors. As the Italian team undergoes restructuring, its boss, Frédéric Vasseur, discusses the keys and difficulties of recruitment.
Frédéric Vasseur did not have a peaceful start to the year at Ferrari. Faced with disappointing results, the team is very active in its recruitment efforts to quickly make a comeback. Ferrari is looking for the best engineers from top-tier teams, but this is far from easy and is not the key to success.
Italy, a problem
In an interview with Sky Sports, the boss of Ferrari highlighted the difficulty of recruiting personnel from Red Bull and Mercedes. « It’s not the same situation. You can switch from Red Bull to Mercedes and keep the same home, keep the children in the same school from Monday to Friday, everything is perfect. If you want to come to Italy, the approach is different. You have to change the family environment, he declared.
The weight of the collective
It is no longer a secret, Ferrari had indeed included the great Adrian Newey on their list. However, even though tempted, Newey had refused to join Ferrari. Ultimately, for Frédéric Vasseur, rebuilding means above all building a collective, and not just recruiting one or two big names from Formula 1.
I think we have a good structure. We need to strengthen the team, that’s for sure, and we’re on the right track. It’s not just about big names.
“In today’s large teams, we have around 1,000 employees and I am convinced that the weight of the group is much more important than the weight of the individual,” he concluded on Sky Sports.
For the time being, Ferrari must develop its car without the new recruits in order to restore hope to its drivers.
