Mercedes specialized boss Paddy Lowe has joined Williams as boss specialized officer. The 54-year-old left Mercedes in January and a move to Williams has been mooted since December, yet the arrangement took longer than anticipated to finish.
Lowe, a standout amongst the most very respected specialized pioneers in Formula 1, will have obligation regarding the engineering side of the whole Williams business. This incorporates the F1 team additionally the Advanced Engineering business arm.
Lowe, who began work at Williams on Thursday, will likewise be on the directorate and take an undisclosed shareholding in the organization. Lowe was official executive (specialized) at Mercedes from 2013, and drove the team through three back to back drivers’ and constructors’ title copies from 2014-16. In any case, he was put on planting leave by Mercedes this winter after a distinction of assessment with F1 boss Toto Wolff about the future heading of the team.
Lowe has been supplanted by James Allison, who has been given an alternate title of specialized executive, having left that position at Ferrari a year ago.
Lowe said: “I’ve always had a deep respect for Williams – my first team in Formula 1. It is a huge honour to return in this leadership position and to have the opportunity to become a shareholder. I am extremely motivated to play my part in bringing success back to the team.”
Claire Williams said: “Having someone of Paddy’s calibre and engineering competence is not only a morale boost for everyone at Williams, but I know it will also significantly support our efforts to return this team back to the front of the grid.
“Our ambitions at Williams are unwavering, we want to win races and championships, but to do that you need the best talent in the business. In Paddy we believe we have just that as well as a leader who will drive change. This is a game changer for us.”
For Lowe, it implies a career completing the cycle. He began work in F1 at Williams in 1987 and assumed a focal part in the advancement of the dynamic suspension framework on the prevailing FW14B car with which Nigel Mansell won the 1992 world title, and its successor the FW15C, with which Alain Prost was triumphant in 1993.
Lowe joined McLaren in 1993 and remained there until moving to Mercedes, ascending to the position of specialized executive.
