James Allison To Join Mercedes As Technical Director
It’s something which has been speculated about over the past couple of weeks (especially since Paddy Lowe left Mercedes earlier in the year) and today, the news was announced that James Allison will join the Mercedes team from the 1st March 2017 ahead of the Formula 1 2017 Season.
James Allison left his role at Ferrari last July and now it seems like it’s a fresh start with Mercedes.
Following the news, here is what James Allison said – “I am very excited to be getting back to work after this time away from the sport. It’s a massive privilege to be given the trust of a position in a team that has done so well in the past 3 seasons.“
Continuing – “I’m really looking forward to playing my part in helping Mercedes go from strength to strength in the coming years.“
Toto Wolff also commented – “I am delighted to welcome James to Mercedes and very much looking forward to working with him. Our technical team is extremely skilled at every level and at the top of it’s game after delivering 3 world-championships in a row.“
He continued to say – “It wasn’t an easy task to find the right personality who can strengthen our experienced group of engineers, give our talented young team members the space to develop and to also bring in his own vision to this role. James is a sharp engineer and I think that we have found the perfect guy who has the right fit with out senior leaders.“
James Allison will be overseeing the workings of the engineering group and reporting directly to team boss, Toto Wolff.
The start date of March 1st means that he will be joining the team mid-way through the opening test of the 2017 Formula 1 season.
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Yes! Think this is going to be a great team now. I didn’t like Paddy
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Haha! Lets see how it will all work out!
This is interesting….. will Merc still be the top team?
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Will have to wait and see – there are a lot of changes going on and with all the new regulations, anything could happen! I do think that Red Bull will definitely close the gap with more wins this year so it’s all very exciting!