Mercedes will not directly replace strategy director James Vowles after he joins Williams as its new team principal. Here's why: F1
And while Mercedes has long benefited from Vowles’ involvement, and will lose his valuable input, in terms of strategy it has emerged that there had already been a shift in approach from the middle of last year as he stepped back from having such a hands-on role.
Those changes meant the Mercedes strategy at races was already been run without the need for Vowles to have anything more than a watching brief. “We've been very reliant on James' visibility, and we put an emphasis a few years ago on how that would continue if he one day would decide to do something else, whether within Mercedes or outside. James was very good in setting that up.
“They have flown the airplane now alone in the last six months, and before that already very much just under James's supervision. So I feel very comfortable in the structure going forward. And it’s not that suddenly a big weakness has been created.”
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