After 23 years of work at Scuderia Ferrari, he definitively said goodbye to the Maranello team with a touching message via social media
June 3, 2024
Simone Resta has officially said goodbye to Scuderia Ferrari. After 23 years of service for the Maranello team, where he also held the role of technical director of Haasthe Italian engineer published on his social profiles for moving message to definitively close his working period with the Prancing Horse, which ended last Friday, his last day alongside the Rossa.
“2001-2024, last day after 23 years of passion at Ferrari. Unique professional experience, with the fortune of knowing exceptional talents. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who believed in me and to the fans who have never failed to support me over the years. Full speed ahead” wrote Simone Resta on his Linkedin profile to greet Scuderia Ferrari. His next destination will be England, to be more precise, Brackley. In fact, starting from next season, when he will finish his gardening period, Resta will become Mercedes’ director of strategic developmentworking in synergy with the technical director James Allisonwho he already had the opportunity to meet in Maranello when Sebastian Vettel arrived in Ferrari.
Simone Resta will not be the only member of the Prancing Horse to wear the colors of the silver arrows as he will also Enrico Sampo will move to Mercedes as responsible for performance software applications. In response to these two departures to Toto Wolff’s team, Frédéric Vasseur’s Ferrari signed Loic Serra And Jerome D’Ambrosiorespectively Head of Chassis Performance Engineering and Deputy Team Principal and head of the Scuderia Ferrari Accademy, in addition to the hiring of Lewis Hamilton who will become Charles Leclerc’s teammate in 2025 in place of Carlos Sainz.
