No, Luca Di montezemolo will remain as the leader of Scuderia Ferrari and he is not moving to politics. However Ferrari has decided to replaced its head of engineering Chris Dyer with ex-McLaren designer Pat Fry who had joined Ferrari, as a consequence for making the call to bring Alonso in for tyres prematurely during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Nonetheless its obvious that it was a decision that force Alonso to stuck in traffic and lose eventually the world title for Ferrari.
Team principal Stefano Domenicali recently claimed in an interview with La Repubblica: "The mistake had a devastating effect. But in a normal race it was a normal error. So you can't jettison everything - even the good things - because of it. We will officially announce something in the coming hours and make sure that those who are making decisions in the crucial moments have all the tools to do not repeat the mistakes."
On Tuesday Ferrari confirmed Fry would take over Dyer's role, with the latter's position being "redefined in the next few days" according to a statement.
"Pat Fry will, in addition to his current role, take on the job of head of race track engineering. Up until yesterday, this position was held by Chris Dyer."
Dyer has been at Ferrari since 2001 and was the mastermind behind some of Michael Schumacher's victories with the team in the early 2000s. He was also Kimi Raikkonen's race engineer and oversaw Ferrari's last drivers' title in 2007.
The team also took the opportunity to introduce Neil Martin to the team who commented:
"Joining the Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro is the respected engineer, Neil Martin, who takes on the role of heading up the new Operations Research department. A 38 year old Englishman, Martin previously worked for Red Bull and prior to that McLaren and he will now report directly to Technical Director, Aldo Costa."
However, consequences of the Abu Dhabi fiasco seemed to be even deeper as Stefano Domenicali himself has admitted he had seriously considered quitting after the end of the season.
"I know that people see me as the coach of Ferrari. But a team principal is something different. This is a business and I have to manage all the different aspects, not just the sporting ones. I take care of everything, so I delegate a lot, but saying that, you have to be ready for anything especially if there have not been the results you want for two years.
But thank god it's not football! To rebuild in F1 takes months and years and from that point of view I have always felt a great support from the president and the shareholders."
