Madonna di Campiglio, 11 January –As had been hinted at during the usual pre-Christmas meeting with the media, a few additions have been made to the Scuderia structure and there have also been some changes made within its organisation.

The most significant were set out this morning by Stefano Domenicali during his meeting with the media: “From the 2 January, Steve Clark joins us from Mercedes to work as a track engineer, while also joining Ferrari is Hiroide Hamashima, previously Technical Director at Bridgestone Motorsport. He will head up a new project focusing on an in-depth assessment of an area crucial to performance, which is the interaction between the car and its tyres and he will also be our technical link to Pirelli. Both men will report to Technical Director, Pat Fry.”

Ferrari has always applied technology transfer between race track and road, making it one of its strong points and part of this has also involved movement in both directions in terms of personnel. This explains Marco Fainello’s move to the Technical Direction of the Gestione Industriale, where he takes on an important role in the area of simulation.