A former Hulkenberg engineer arrives at Haas

Mark Slade will be a part of Haas and work alongside Kevin Magnussen from the 2022 F1 Singapore Grand Prix on the finish of the month. He’ll formally exchange Ed Regan on this place, the latter being about to go away the workforce on the finish of the season and having been changed inside the manufacturing unit for the months to return. He was additionally not current in the course of the Spa-Zandvoort-Monza triple spherical, the place it was Dominic Haines who assisted the Danish driver.

Slade labored for a very long time on the aspect of the Enstone manufacturing unit, below the varied latest identities of the workforce, specifically alongside Kimi Räikkönen from the time of Lotus or Nico Hülkenberg from the time of Renault. Extra just lately, he had been related to Esteban Ocon however the relationship between the 2 males had probably not satisfied and he had been changed on this function by Josh Peckett originally of 2021 at Alpine, earlier than leaving the construction.

Earlier than Enstone, Mark Slade labored for practically 20 years at McLaren (between 1991 and 2010), notably being an engineer with Mika Häkkinen, David Coulthard but in addition Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen. He joined Renault on the finish of 2010 earlier than making a brief one-year stint at Mercedes in 2011 to work with Michael Schumacher, assisted amongst others by Lewis Hamilton’s present race engineer, Peter Bonnington.

Mark Slade at Renault in 2018

Slade is especially well-known on this planet of Formulation 1 for having been one of many actors of the outstanding radio releases of Räikkönen in his Lotus interval. He’s additionally very fashionable with drivers with whom he has solid shut ties, comparable to Kovalainen, who knew him at McLaren in 2008 and 2009, then throughout his transient stint at Lotus in 2013.

“I feel having Mark Slade as an engineer was a giant issue”the Finn advised Motorsport.com about their relationship. “It was comparatively simple to begin working with him. [chez Lotus] as a result of I knew him from the McLaren days, and I knew his manner of working.”

“He additionally knew what I wanted. If I obtained misplaced, really he might make strategies simply by wanting on the telemetry, in order that was actually useful. I had a good time at McLaren with him and he has labored with some superb drivers, and he is clearly an amazing engineer.”

The arrival within the ranks of Haas of a former engineer from Hülkenberg, who’s now among the many favorites to occupy the 2023 seat, is an attention-grabbing nod.

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