Marcos has been Leclerc’s race engineer since he joined from Sauber initially of 2019, getting the function after his working as a factory-based engineer when Carlo Santi had been race engineer for Leclerc’s predecessor Kimi Raikkonen in 2018.
This adopted long-time Ferrari driver coach and esteemed race engineer Jock Clear working to implement Leclerc’s engineering staff for his first season with the Scuderia.
On Thursday, Ferrari introduced that Marcos will step down as Leclerc’s engineer from the beginning of subsequent week and the build-up to the Emilia Romagna GP, as he’s being moved to work on “different essential firm programmes”.
The total Ferrari assertion reads: “Organisational replace: Ferrari pronounces that, as of Monday 13 Could, Xavi Marcos will deliver his invaluable expertise gained as a race engineer with the Components 1 staff to the event of different essential firm programmes.”
The transfer follows a collection of fractious staff messages between Leclerc and Marcos lately – a lot of which adopted discussions round Ferrari’s race technique selections following a collection of shambolic ways selections throughout its title-contending interval in 2022.
On the 2023 United States GP, Leclerc revealed that he had “punched my steering wheel and my helmet” in frustration at listening to a Marcos name relating to trace limits following the lap he had produced to say pole place at Austin.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24
Picture by: Erik Junius
In reality, Marcos had been referring to Max Verstappen’s time being deleted for a monitor limits violation.
Then, only one race in the past on the 2024 Chinese language GP, a weird radio misunderstanding between the pair befell in that GP’s closing levels, when Marcos recommended Leclerc return to working his “unique line” at a sure a part of the Shanghai monitor “for comparability”.
This left Leclerc seemingly bewildered. The alternate went as follows:
Marcos: Attempt unique line Turns 7 and eight for comparability.
Leclerc: What?
Marcos: Attempt unique line Turns 7 and eight.
Leclerc: I do not perceive. ‘Horizontal line? What the hell is that?
Marcos: Authentic line! Like the start of the race.
Leclerc: ‘Authentic line’, you mentioned?
Marcos: ‘Authentic line’, sure.
Leclerc: What the hell does that imply?
Marcos: Simply neglect it, it is final lap.
Ferrari additionally introduced that Leclerc’s present efficiency engineer – Bryan Bozzi, a 10-year veteran with the Scuderia – will substitute Marcos as race engineer from the Imola spherical.
It isn’t but recognized what Ferrari’s race engineer plans are for when Lewis Hamilton joins the staff from Mercedes for 2025 in Carlos Sainz’s place at this marketing campaign’s conclusion.
Riccardo Adami continued in the identical place when Sainz joined the staff to interchange Sebastian Vettel for 2021, however there was hypothesis Hamilton might deliver his long-term Mercedes race engineer Peter Bonnington with him to Ferrari if the 2 groups might work out a deal.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff mentioned again in February when Hamilton’s Ferrari transfer was introduced that “it is a dialogue which everybody must have within the months to return”.
