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Other significant moves

Besides the Fernando to Ferrari piece we ran earlier, there are also some other significant staff moves to note.

Ferrari have replaced Juan Todt at the head of the F1 team by Stefano Domenicali, who will take over the running of the team from January. This shows that Todt is obviously under an increased load with managing the Ferrari group, and can no longer manage running the team as well.

The other, more positive move is Ross Brawn, he has joined the Honda team, and I am sure will make a difference almost immediately.

Nick Fry had this to say about the appointment

"In terms of job responsibilities. Ross is team principal and is organizationally in charge of the team," Fry said. "I will take charge of the commercial side, the marketing, sponsorship and the legal side."

With Ross having this to say about his new team

Stepney Gone

Ferrari have announced that Nigel Stepney is no longer employed by the team.

Nigel has been at the heart of an investigation into sabotage allegations around the Monaco GP.

Ferrari confirmed that they were looking into the allegations internally, as well as a Police investigation that is ongoing. Today they announced that they have decided to terminate his contract.

Nigel has maintained his innocence in the allegations, and the thinking around the pit is that it would have been next to impossible for him to have done what is being said (tampered with the fuel, however it was discovered at the factory before the race weekend).

Nigel is currently on holiday in the Philippines, and is expected back towards the end of the week. 

This has implications for the Ferrari team in more than one way, it may disrupt the current engineering teams, as Nigel has been the go to man for a long time. As well as this, he is a long term friend of Ross Brawn, who it is widely believed that Ferrari I trying to groom into becoming the team head.