Charles Leclerc’s track engineer was killed

Charles Leclerc has a new track engineer with immediate effect. This was announced by Ferrari through social networks. Thus ended the duo formed by Leclerc and the one who until now is the voice that guides him in the car, the Catalan Xavi Martos, who has remained on the Monegasque side since he was promoted to Ferrari.

“Scuderia Ferrari HP announced that, starting Monday, May 13, Xavi Marcos will contribute his valuable experience gained as a racing engineer with the Formula 1 team to the development of other important programs of the company”Ferrari said in a statement.

“Bryan Bozzi, who has worked with the team for ten years, currently as Charles Leclerc’s Performance Engineer, will now assume the role of his Race Engineer from next weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.”added ‘Scuderia’ via ‘X’ social network.

Xavier Marcos Padrós signed for Ferrari in 2018 as a factory race engineer, before becoming Charles Leclerc’s track engineer from 2019. After 5 seasons together, Xavi will stop working alongside Leclerc with an organizational change that happening at a moment that is strange, with the campaign already started and only after 6 races.

In the final courses, Charles Leclerc and Xavi Marcos They starred in several radio stations where the Monegasque was a bit tense. However, it is not known why Ferrari decided to make this change and whether Leclerc requested this move.

Leclerc was already upset with his engineer just two races ago, at the final F1 2024 Chinese GPwhen he said he would try “follow the original trajectory at turns 7 and 8”. Leclerc understood ‘horizontal’ rather than ‘original’. “Horizontal trajectory?”Leclerc asked confused. “You said original? What does that mean?”, he later told her that there was an irony. “Forget it, it’s the last lap,” replied Xavi Marcos to close the discussion. Coincidence or not, Marcos did just one more race with Leclerc, in Miami last week.

Leclerc spoke to Xavi

“Thank you a thousand for everything Xavi”, he wrote at the beginning of the ‘post’ that Leclerc dedicated to him on Instagram, sharing some snapshots with the Catalan from these people together at Ferrari.

“So many years working together, my first pole, my first victory, even my first year at Ferrari was with you and you always bring out the best in me by pushing hard no matter what our situation is. Thank you yours for all and good luck in your new adventures ahead”said Leclerc, who from Imola will have Bryan Bozzi as his new track engineer.