Mercedes F1 engine boss Andy Cowell will not join Ferrari, Italian media confirms. Andy Cowell will not join Ferrari.

Mercedes at the beginning of the turbo-hybrid era was the benchmark for power units. This was possible also thanks to the contribution of Andy Cowell, an engineer who decided to leave the three-pointed star starting from July 1st. The Daimler group, with the help of team principal Toto Wolff, has decided to change its approach regarding the organization chart of that important area after Cowell has expressed his intention to leave the position.

However, the engineer will not join Ferrari. Here are some extracts from the analysis in today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport.

The father of V6 to leave, but Mercedes is not scared
“[…] Why does Cowell give up now? Fatigue? Does he want to devote himself to something else? To measure his abilities in a different challenge? A bit of all this […]

At the same time Ferrari, to avoid any misunderstandings, confirmed that the British engineer, with a long course in F1, who has his signature on the 10-cylinder Ford that won with Stewart at the Nürburgring 1999 with Johnny Herbert – will not move to the Maranello team.

Although in the last two years Lorenzo Sassi, the former engine manager of Maranello and Giacomo Tortora, who took charge of the Cavallino simulator and who is now the assistant designer in the world champion team, have gone in the opposite direction. […] Toto Wolff and Markus Shafer, who as a member of the Mercedes board of directors took on the role of non-executive chairman of the team that belonged to Niki Lauda, ​​began to think about the succession. The decision, announced yesterday, was to divide the tasks, assigning them to four different people: Hywel Thomas, who will be responsible of the Power Units; Adam Allsopp, who will handle Project One, the Stuttgart Hypercar (for Le Mans?), Richard Stevens, who will be chief operating officer and Ronald Ballhaus, who will handle the financial aspect. Cowell will stay by their side to manage the transition until early 2021, when he leaves the Stuttgart House […] “. – Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport informs.