Resta will remain under contract to Ferrari under the arrangement but his salary will be paid by Haas, in an arrangement the Italian team liken to a loan of a football player from one club to another. The plan is for a number of other employees to follow Resta from Ferrari to Haas. Ferrari see the arrangement as an extension of their technical collaboration with Haas, which sees the US-based team buy as many parts from Ferrari as is allowed under the rules. Haas team principal Gunther Steiner said the role Resta would fulfil had not yet been fully defined.

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