Charles Leclerc’s former F1 race engineer has been appointed by Cadillac as technical director of their LMDh sportscar challenge.
Xavier Marcos labored as Leclerc’s race engineer on the Ferrari F1 staff between 2019 and mid-2024.
The Spaniard initially joined Ferrari in 2018 in a factory-based engineering position, earlier than teaming up with Leclerc when he arrived on the staff from Sauber.
Marcos was changed final Could forward of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with Bryan Bozzi taking over the place as Leclerc’s new race engineer.
Previous to becoming a member of Ferrari, Marcos was a chief race engineer in NASCAR, however had earlier F1 stints for HRT and later Williams.
Autosport report he’ll now make the change to sportscar racing for 2025, taking over the newly-created position of technical director at Cadillac Racing for his or her LMDh programme.
Leclerc and ‘Xavi’ had some memorable radio exchanges throughout their five-year spell working collectively at Ferrari, together with the well-known “we’re checking” message.
Talking about his change of race engineer final Could, Leclerc revealed the choice was a staff alternative.
“The choice was made between the staff and Xavi. They’ve had different plans in thoughts, I suppose, and it was communicated to me proper after Miami,” he defined.
“However having stated that, Bryan, who will take the position of Xavi from now onwards, is an individual I’ve been working with since I arrived in Ferrari. He’s at all times been my efficiency engineer, so he is aware of precisely how all the things works. So, it’s not like I’m ranging from zero and it’s going to be a whole re-adaptation.
“It’s been tremendous easy till now, and I’m certain it should proceed that approach and we’ll be at our 100% already from this weekend. That’s all I can say.”
