Ferrari ready to extend contract with Charles Leclerc

After the cancellation of the Imola stage, the Formula 1 teams, including Ferrari, managed to quickly leave the area of ​​the Emilia-Romagna region hit by heavy rain and remove all their cargo, after which the road trains with cars and equipment arrived safely in Monaco.

Since representatives of the top management of the teams rarely appear on the track before Thursday, Ferrari’s management did not even come to Imola, but stayed in Maranello, where John Elkann, the company’s president, now held a series of meetings. It is quite clear that issues related to the Scuderia’s unsatisfactory results were on their agenda, so an action plan was discussed to improve the efficiency of the car both in the near and medium term.

Some Italian sources report that one of the topics was the renewal of the contract with Charles Leclerc: preliminary negotiations have already taken place with the driver from Monaco, and it is likely that he will continue to drive for Ferrari beyond 2024.

Benedetto Vigna, the company’s CEO, and Frederic Vasseur, the head of Scuderia, are concerned about the imminent transition of Laurent Mekis to AlphaTauri, so the meetings also discussed the possibility of putting the French specialist on “academic leave”. send, but the final decision was not made.

Despite Helmut Marko’s recent comments, the Italian publication Formu1a.uno literally writes the following: Although no agreements have yet been made with Red Bull, it is no longer a secret that Pierre Vache, a recognized aerodynamic specialist, Enrico Balbo, head of the team of Milton-Keans this department, as well as Paul Monaghan, the lead race engineer.

Reportedly, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have already received assurances that Ferrari’s technical department will be strengthened by these three first-class professionals.