Andreas Seidl will replace Frederic Vasseur as the Team Principal of Alfa Romeo from 2023 onwards
The off-season musical chair in Formula One continues as several developments take place on a busy day for all F1 teams. The latest development comes from McLaren as Team Principal Andreas Seidl is set to leave the team to join Alfa Romeo. Seidl will be replaced by Andrea Stella, who has been associated with McLaren for the last 15 years.
Seidl will take Vasseur’s place as the Team Principal of Alfa Romeo. Vasseur has moved on to replace the departing Mattia Binotto as the team Principal of Ferrari. Meanwhile, all these movements open up a great opportunity for Stella, who is now set to be the new Boss at McLaren. During his 15-year-long career at McLaren till date, Stella has worked in various roles – Performance Engineer, Race Engineer, Head of Race Operations and most recently as Racing Director.
Fans seem to be totally enjoying the drama that’s going on in F1 at present. Let us take a look at some of the reactions from fans on Twitter.
“Chris, could you please just give us the end of the day result, in total, preferably with graphics? This is difficult to follow”, joked a fan.
“Andreas Seidl has had enough of McLaren kindergarten and for the sake of his brain cells decided to move into more stable environment. No disrespect intended whatsoever, will be interesting to see how he settles”, wrote another fan.
“happy team principal silly season day everyone”, read a tweet.
“Sebastian retirement led to driver market changes and now Binnoto’s resignation led to Team principal changes across several teams”, tweeted another fan.
Another fan wrote: “Not just the drivers having a ‘silly season’, TPs have joined in!”
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