Analysis: F1?s tech boss silly season

The attention of Formula 1 fans and media may have been focused pretty much entirely on developments at Mercedes this week, but behind the scenes the ramifications of its shake-up are only just starting to reverberate around the grid. The F1 business is a fairly small community, with only a finite number of top-class technical talents available to be shared among the top teams. It means that if a technical director from Team A is poached by Team B, then Team A has to react swiftly and either promote from within or go off and poach Team C's top man.

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