Moving F1-Staff

[ispano6]

Giles Wood to come aboard to Aston Martin for simulator development and Gioacchino Vino as chief aerodynamicist

"Aston Martin lures Newey's ex-Red Bull lieutenant back to F1"

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/asto ... ack-to-f1/

Aston Martin has lured one of Adrian Newey’s former Red Bull lieutenants back to Formula 1 to help drive forward its simulation tools.

The Race can reveal that Giles Wood, who worked closely with Newey as he headed up Red Bull’s simulation and analysis department during its golden era of success with Sebastian Vettel, has been convinced to return to F1 after a recent spell working with Apple on autonomous technologies.

Wood has joined Aston Martin as its simulation and vehicle modelling director, and will play a critical role in delivering improvements to an area of performance that Newey has singled out as lacking right now.
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Alongside the efforts to improve its simulation tools, Aston Martin has been on a recruitment drive to bolster areas where it feels it is behind the opposition – including in its aerodynamics department.

And that has also included the appointment of Gioacchino 'Jack' Vino as its new chief aerodynamicist.

[ralphster7]

Enrico Racca; Head of Supply Chain and Production at Scuderia Ferrari has left the team.

[ralphster7]

Duncan Elliott is Aston Martin's new Chief Designer - joined from Mercedes where he was Head of Composite Design.

[lio007]

Duncan Elliott is Aston Martin's new Chief Designer - joined from Mercedes where he was Head of Composite Design.

I wonder about the implications for Akio Haga.

[ralphster7]

I wonder if they are switching back to the two Chief Designer system where one worked on the current car and one on the Future car - this process seems to have discontinued since the departure of Ian Hall to their performance division. I also now tweet at @F1TechnicalUpdates!

[mclaren_mircea]

In the last 3 and a half years Aston Martin took the most men, while Mercedes lost the most. I know that before budget cap Aston was under staffed while Mercedes the opposite, but what is alarming is that Mercedes is losing the heads of the departments or other high level engineers. And after all of this they are puzzled why they dont understand properly and transfering this to a really fast car. Mclaren understood the low corners and heat conditions, Ferrari understood the overheating tyres problems, even Red Bull is starting to came to graps with the car, but for Mercedes it is the same situation since 2022. Hot conditions, slow speed corners. Maybe all of this, because we have to recognise it is a real brain drainage is impacting the car development and DNA design of the car. I repeat it. They are losing engineers at the very top end of experience/quality and are recuiting young enginners, graduates or average engineers from Racing Bulls, Alpine, etc. Since when, except Resta, did Mercedes recruited a very respected engineer from another top team? Im starting to think that for Toto it is becoming a situation of the team beeing profitable on the economical side or is beeing complacent. Get the big shark engineers. We are deluding ourselves if we think that Max driving the car will be enough or that they will be winning because of the engine. Im just hoping for a rude awakening in 2026. Despite beeing the factory team, I hope that Mclaren will beat them on the suspension, mechanical and aerodynamic sides the Mercedes team, only then the king will be left naked and they wont put the blame on the regulation and floor dependend formula.

[Lasssept]

Since when, except Resta, did Mercedes recruited a very respected engineer from another top team ?

Chris St Leger - Harris Head of Structures, Red Bull -> Head of Composite Design Mercedes.

[lio007]

Another long term Mercedes employee switched camp:
Tom Fanthorpe former Lead CFD Engineer at Mercedes has joined Cadillac as Head of CFD in Jun.25

[ralphster7]

Peter Marshall Head of Composite Design at Alpine has moved to Racing Bulls in the same position.

[ralphster7]

James McKenzie Senior Aerodynamicist, Mercedes -> Principal Aerodynamicist, Williams

[mclaren_mircea]

James McKenzie Senior Aerodynamicist, Mercedes -> Principal Aerodynamicist, Williams

When it will stop??? We can downplay it but reading the last 10 pages on this thread Mercedes is losing by far the most senior engineers compared to the other top teams. Ferrari and Red Bull to had big organisation but it is nowhere this bleeding. The 1200 employees before the budget cap it is only sand in the eyes because many of them are from Brixworth not Brackley. The key to understand their difficulties is here, in this informations, not correlation, wind tunnel, or slow thinking. They go for cheap yound engineers or they pride with arrogance that they can promote from within. That ,,within" is not enough and they should be more humble. In the first years or of the next regulation all this problems will be masked by the superior engine and the better integration compared to other engine car or with their own customers. But they will be gradually caught when the others will build better chassis, better suspension systems, better aerodynamic platforms.