Ahead of this weekend’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Azerbaijan Grand Prix, AlphaTauri confirmed they had 🧸signed Ferrari sporting director Mekies to replace Franz Tost as team princip🗹al when he sꦰteps down at the end of the 2023 season.

Despite giving a date for 67-year-old Tost’s departure, AlphaTauri did not 🥃specific exactly when Mekies would takeover as team principal. 

And Vasseur, who made a winter switch from A💮lfa Romeo to replace Mattia Binotto as Ferrari boss, stressed that the “details” of Mekies’ exit are yet to be agreed. 

“First of all, I think it’s a mega⭕ opportunity for Laurent, considering a▨lso that I have a good relationship with him. And I won’t block Laurent, for sure,” Vasseur said on Thursday. 

“Then I think it’s also – if you speak𒊎 about timeline – I think Toro Rosso [AlphaTauri] was proba🥂bly a bit aggressive on the press release, and we have a long-term contract with Laurent and we’ll have to discuss about details.”

Vasseur would not b༒e drawn on the exact length of a potential ‘gardening leave’ period that would need to be obs▨erved before Mekies could complete his move to AlphaTauri. 

“We have a long-term contract with him and we’ll have to find the best for Fe🌊rrari,” he said. 

“And depending on when he will move to Toro Rosso [AlphaTauri], we wilꦯl decide the end of the collaboration. We’ll do it properly and the relationship is very positive.”

In March, Vasseur strongly denied speculation that Mekies could leave F🐠errari. 

When that was put to him, Vasseur responded: “But I think the proposal was not the same! And I can’t perfectl♚y put myself in Laurent’s position.

“But I t♛hink iꦦt’s quite impossible to refuse, when you are in this business, to become team principal now.”

He added: “I’m there to protect Ferrari’s interests, and it’s Ferrari first and it will always be Ferrari first, it means that I will have to discuss about the condi𒆙tions of this.”

Mekies is the la🥂test high-profile figure to quit Ferrari amid a lacklustre start to 2023, but Vasseur was keen to downplay the situation. 

“To💦 lose t♍wo persons out of 1600, it’s not a drama,” he said.

“You know that the power of the team is always more important, and the power of the group, than the individualওs.

“We have to keep this in mind, that the most impor🙈tant is the group. The group is there, we are recruiting🐽 massively, we are not communicating that but we are recruiting massively.

“And we will do that step by step because 🐲you can’t put an organisation in place in two weeks. ♏You know perfectly the system of the recruitment in F1, it’s quite long and painful.

“But we are working on it. Don’t e🙈xpect that one day you will have a new organisatio🐈n. It will be step by step and we are putting something in place.”