Jock Clear joins Ferrari after Mercedes spell

Well known trackside engineer Jock Clear has joined Scuderia Ferrari, ending his job at Senior Performance Engineer that he fulfilled in recent years with the Mercedes AMG F1 Team.

Ferrari have announced that Clear has been signed as a direct replacement for Pat Fry who was ousted last week.

Clear is well experienced in Formula One and has worked as a race engineer at Williams F1 for David Coulthard and Jacques Villeneuve, with whom he secured the drivers' title in 1997. He subsequently followed Villeneuve to BAR before moving on to Mercedes in 2010 where he now ends his spell, having working with Lewis Hamilton since the beginning of 2013.

While the contract is signed, Ferrari's team principal Maurizio Arrivabene confirmed at a press conference today that they are working with Mercedes to "secure his services as soon as possible".