Laurent Mekies, FIA Deputy Race Director recently joined to Ferrari technical team Toto Wolff is reacting calmly to the latest controversial personnel switch in formula one. Last year, the move of Marcin Budkowski from the FIA to Renault caused a major stir, triggering a ‘gentleman's agreement' between teams about poaching staff from the governing body. But now Laurent Mekies, another prominent FIA figure, has been snapped up by Ferrari. 'I can understand if some teams are a little bit upset,' said F1 race director Charlie Whiting. 'But the degree of confidentiality of the information Laurent had access to was not as high as in the case of Marcin,' he said. 'Actually, none of the...
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