Kevin Magnussens Haas team steps up now to remedy the aerodynamic problems which destroyed the 2019 season.
Guillaume Cattelani, there have been aerodynamic head of McLaren, since the Danish racing driver made his debut for the team in 2014, according to B. T.’s sources on the way to Haas.
The experienced frenchman has previously worked together with the Italian racerbilsfabrik Dallara, which builds Haas’ Formula 1 cars. He now leaves McLaren, where the technical department is in the process of a major reorganization.
Guillaume Cattelani in the just-completed 2019-season has been one of the architects behind the mclaren’s impressive comeback that secured the team a solid victory in the ‘best of the rest’-the class behind the three top team Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
Haas was in 2018 close to winning just the ’best of the rest’-the class and was number five in the constructors ‘ championship, but this year meant aerodynamic problems, Magnussen and co. could not take advantage of their deck optimally, and it sent the team down in ninth place. Second to last.
Usually have leading Formula 1 engineers to a notice period of minimum six months, but may Cattelina negotiate a redundancy, which means that he can start with Haas already in the new year.
Haas will not comment on the rumors that Cattelani is on the way to the team.
“We does not comment on personnel matters,” says a spokesman for B. T.
