Hamashima joins Ferrari departures

Ferrari announced on Tuesday that both engineering director Pat Fry, who recruited Hamashima to Ferrari for the 2012 season, and chief designer Nicolas Tombazis would be leaving the F1 team.

Hamashima's impending departure is the latest in a series of staff shuffles at Maranello, which is continuing a major restructuring under new team principal Maurizio Arrivabene following a season in which Ferrari failed to win a race for the first time since 1993.

Hamashima served as Bridgestone's director of motorsport tyre development in F1 until the Japanese company left the sport at the end of 2010.

He worked in MotoGP in 2011, before taking up a role of analysing tyre performance for Ferrari.