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Ferrari recruits Mekies from FIA

Ferrari has followed Renault's example and recruited a high ranking FIA official, Laurent Mekies. According to a brief press release issued this afternoon, Mekies, will join Ferrari on September 20, and will report to technical director, Mattia Binotto. Mekies, who first entered F1 in 2001 with Arrows, subsequently headed to Minardi where he was race engineer to Mark Webber, Justin Wilson, Zsolt Baumgartner and Christijan Albers between 2002 and 2005, before being promoted to the role of chief engineer in 2006 when the Faenza outfit was purchased by Toro Rosso. Between 2013 and 2014 he was head of vehicle performance at Toro Rosso before joining the FIA as Safety Director in 2015. In 2017...
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