It seems rumors from final week had been right. Ranging from December 1, Bugatti’s president Stephan Winkelmann will take the function of CEO and president of one other Volkswagen Group-owned supercar model – Lamborghini. In Sant’Agata Bolognese, he’ll succeed Stefano Domenicali, who will return to Components 1 profession from 2021 onwards the place he’ll change into head of racing of the sequence.
Winkelmann will return to the model he led between 2005 and 2016 when he was president and CEO of Lamborghini. In March 2016, Winkelmann was changed by Domenicali and the 2 will swap roles as soon as once more in lower than two weeks from now.
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“I want to thank all staff for his or her laborious work and their ardour for Lamborghini. I’m pleased with this wonderful workforce and grateful to have been a part of it for 4 years,” Domenicali commented.
“Within the identify of the entire administration board of Audi, I want to thank Stefano Domenicali for his very good achievements and his dedication to Lamborghini. Previously 4 years he has formed the transformation of the model and pushed it forward,” Markus Duesmann, chairman of the board of administration at Audi, mentioned. “We want him each success in his new function as CEO of Components 1.”
Domenicali’s successor is just not precisely a beginner within the business, to say the least. He began his profession at Fiat taking numerous totally different positions, earlier than rising to change into CEO of Fiat in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. When he left Lamborghini in 2016, he moved to Audi Sport (Audi Quattro GmbH on the time) taking the function of Managing Director for 2 years.
In January 2018, Winkelmann was appointed as president of Bugatti and can proceed to occupy this place from December 1.