James Vowles won't turn Williams into a 'mini-Mercedes' when he joins the British squad as its team principal this year. F1
Vowles will join a Williams team looking to bounce back from finishing last in the 2022 constructors’ championship, spending most of the season with the slowest car. He has been a key part of Toto Wolff’s senior management team at Mercedes, playing a significant role in its success throughout the V6 hybrid era.George Russell
“When we asked our senior leadership team, what's the most important element of the team, it will always come back to two things at Mercedes: people and culture. “It doesn’t mean that Mercedes and ourselves won’t have collaboration in some form or another, it was collaborating before I joined,” he said.Last year, 1978 F1 world champion Mario Andretti raised concerns about the political sway held in F1 by Mercedes boss Wolff after the Andretti family’s bid to try and establish a new team was met with some scepticism.
“In that way, there was always the speculation that Williams, because of the Mercedes engine, was a subordinate. But none of that was obviously true.
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