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Exclusive: Xavier Marcos Padros on the leadership styles of Ferrari F1 team principals Binotto and Vasseur

In the third part of an exclusive interview with Pit Debrief, Xavier Marcos Padros, current technical director of Cadillac’s LMDh sportscar program, discussed the different leadership styles of Ferrari F1 team principals Mattia Binotto and Fred Vasseur. Working at Ferrari F1 from 2018 to 2024, and as Charles Leclerc’s race engineer, Marcos Padros noted that…

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Xavier Marcos Padros with Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc, and he discusses how he expects the Monegasque to fare against Lewis Hamilton.
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Exclusive: Xavier Marcos Padros “curious” to see how Hamilton fares against “high level” Leclerc at Ferrari F1

In the second part of an exclusive interview with Pit Debrief, Xavier Marcos Padros, current technical director of Cadillac’s LMDh sportscar program, discussed his journey to, with, and from Ferrari, alongside the future of the team, with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in red. The journey to Ferrari and Tifosi culture Despite getting his first…

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“We’ll be at our 100% already from this weekend” — Leclerc speaks about sudden F1 race enginner change at Scuderia Ferrari

In the week leading up to the 2024 F1 Imola GP race weekend, Scuderia Ferrari announced an organisational change in the operations of Charles Leclerc’s garage. Xavi Marcos, Leclerc’s race engineer, will no longer continue in the role. He has been replaced by Bryan Bozzi, who prior to this, was Leclerc’s performance engineer ever since…

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Charles Leclerc to have a new F1 Race Engineer from Imola as Xavi Marcos moves into a new role

There’s been a big change made by Scuderia Ferrari ahead of next weekend’s race trip to Imola for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as Xavier Marcos Padros has left his role as Charles Leclerc’s race engineer. In a statement on Twitter, the Italian team confirmed that “Xavi Marcos will bring his valuable experience gained as…

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