Star recruitment at Williams F1?

Nobody saw the promotion of James Vowles, pillar of the Mercedes F1 organization, at the head of the English team coming. A strategic choice that poses more questions than it provides answers…

Published on 19/01/2023 à 09:00

Jean-Michel Desnoues

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Star recruitment at Williams F1?

Responsible for strategy at Mercedes for years, James Vowles has fully contributed to the success of the German manufacturer © Antonin Vincent / DPPI

A month had passed since the departure of Jost Capito (along with that of technical director François-Xavier Demaison), and the silence of the management of Williams as to the name of his replacement began to raise serious questions. Was this silence the consequence of a long list of refusals?

Absence of sponsors, car bloodless, deleterious atmosphere within the stable, undoubtedly the American investment fund Dorilton Capital, owner of the stable, had the worst difficulties to seduce. If the future prospects were so attractive, why on earth had the CEO and CTO been asked to leave or chosen to slam it? Have they ended up giving up? Had the supporters of the status quo finally got the better of their determination to raise the winds of change or was it their methods which had, on the contrary, ended up offending the staff and causing their dismissal? “ It's evolving, but it takes time, the French technical director told us in the middle of the 2022 season. We do not go from a monoculture, as there may have been for a long time, to a polyculture in the snap of our fingers. At Grove, there are a lot of people who have worked together for a very long time, and the organizational chart was built around them. Without making a clean slate of the past, there were many things to review. We don't do

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