It’s not only drivers who are coveted and could🍸 potentially change teams ahead of the 2024 F1 season.

Crucial staff members and engineers are also approached to swap teams in the hope that their☂ expeಌrtise can add performance to next year’s car.

“When we talk about F1 peopl♔e🐲 think that problems can be solved in a week,” Vasseur explained to . 

“But it is like sailing on a very large sဣhip and establishing a change of course: it is not immediate. 

“Today the person🧜nel market in the GPs is like that of football players, the t♔op 50 technicians have contracts of three years and more. 

“Tꦜo take them away you ha♓ve to wait for [their contracts] to expire or pay hefty penalties or negotiate so that they are released ahead of time. In short, it's complicated. 

“With an aggra🍨vating circumstance for us compared to the British teams: since the teams there are close, if you hire someone he can keep the same house, the same school for his children and the same lifestyle. 

“For an engineer ﷺto come here, however, we must f💧irst convince him, then his wife and the following week the children..."

Laurent Mekies is a high-profile departure f🔥rom Ferrari, he has left to become AlphaTauri’s new team principal.

It is expected that he will begin 🌃his new job on January 1, 2024, after a period of gardening leave - which is fairly standard practice in the F1 paddock.

Similarly, Ferrari have recruited Mercedes’ pe☂rformance director Loic Serra and hope to negotiate an early start date so he can get♍ to work quickly.

"We have hired abou🐎t 25 people, but we are 🍸looking for more,” Vasseur explained. 

“None are alread♕y working at the Scuderia. We have signed a leading name [Loic Serra], which should start on 1 January 2025 but we are trying to [bring forward th🦩e time]. 

“How can I convince Toto Wolff to release him sooner? I'll try when we're on 𝓰the boat together!

“However, as happened with Mekies, sometimes you have p𒀰eople who leave Ferrari, sitꦛuations cross and you can negotiate on dates. 

“Let's say that this soon became the main part of my work at Ferrari. You have to create good relatioꦯnships and convince people to move. 

“The firstꦫ ones you ta🍨ke are the most difficult, then the others seeing them follow suit.”