F1 teams eye Porsche boss Seidl

Mercedes looks set to recruit a team boss Andreas Seidl from Porsche’s highly successful Le Mans team, according to Speed Week. Williams and Sauber are also interested in the 42-year-old, but Toto Wolff is offering a place for Seidl in a “newly created post” at Mercedes. McLaren is also recruiting-but not for F1. "Fernley will build and lead a technical team entirely focused on the 2019 Indy 500, while helping to evaluate the feasibility of a longer-term McLaren involvement in Indycar," McLaren announced. McLaren boss Zak Brown denied that the Indycar side-project is diverting the company's focus away from rebuilding the uncompetitive F1 team. "It will be a totally different team that will be created," he said. "We can give maximum effort to formula one and Indycar without compromising one or the other."

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