Mercedes sign former Ferrari designer Simone Resta as their new strategic development director.
Mercedes have signed former Ferrari designer Simone Resta as their new strategic development director.
Resta previously worked with the team's technical director James Allison when the Briton was at Ferrari from 2013-16.In addition, Enrico Sampo will also join the Silver Arrows from Ferrari to become head of performance software applications. He was in that role when Ferrari created their 2017 and 2018 cars, the most competitive F1 designs to have come out of Maranello in the past decade.
Resta then moved to Sauber in May 2018, returning to Ferrari in August 2019 and then joined Ferrari-affiliated Haas for 2021, where he stayed until the departure of team principal Guenther Steiner over last winter.
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