{"id":155737,"date":"2025-11-27T04:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:02:15","slug":"supercars-news-illness-delays-debut-of-groves-ferrari-f1-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155737\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Illness delays debut of Grove’s Ferrari F1 recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKai Allen’s Mustang in Adelaide. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

The ex-Ferrari F1 performance engineer is set to spearhead Kai Allen\u2019s campaign next year as part of a technical shake-up for the Grove Racing squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He jetted into Adelaide from his native Italy on Wednesday morning with plans for him to get straight to work as a head start for next year.<\/p>\n

However his debut has been delayed by illness with Corte not at the circuit on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cRiccardo was meant to be working this weekend, and he\u2019s here, but he has somehow got extremely unwell on the flight from Italy,\u201d explained team CEO Brenton Grove.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe landed at 1am [Wednesday] morning and now he\u2019s in a hotel room very unwell.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo his debut is not starting out the way he wanted, but he is here this weekend, he is on our performance list and he is working to learn for next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a decision we made pretty early, to give him as much of a head start as we could. But unfortunately it has quite panned out how we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corte arrives at the team right as current team principal David Cauchi is set to depart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has prompted Allen\u2019s current race engineer Alistair McVean to be promoted to a newly-created head of performance role.<\/p>\n

According to Brenton Grove there won\u2019t be a direct replacement for Cauchi, with the team principal role to effectively be dumped from the organisational structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the process of re-organising the team,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably will step up a little bit more [but] I don\u2019t really want to fill that role because my time needs to be spent elsewhere in our businesses and not sucked into the race team full time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019ve already been heavily involved in the team for the last four years and have day-to-day communication with everyone there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I don\u2019t think there is a massive shift in terms of strategy, vision and direction. It\u2019s more just how we implement that day-to-day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have re-organised the business behind the scenes and have a different approach moving forward, so we probably won\u2019t have a direct team principal filling Cauchi\u2019s role.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have a different approach to what we\u2019ve had for the last four years.\u201d<\/p>\n


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