Is Williams-Mercedes the new Haas-Ferrari? Their head of vehicle performance doesn't think so. F1
Not for the first time, Williams have denied James Vowles’ arrival as the new team boss will mean closer ties to the Mercedes team.
Vowles was one of the big-name moves during Formula 1’s off-season, the Briton swapping his Mercedes chief strategist role for that of Williams’ new team principal.whether there’s some Mercedes element to this dealExplaining his thoughts, he continued: “It’s very rare that you find someone certainly in a senior position of a team move across with zero gardening leave, and James has done that, so clearly a very amicable thing.
However, Williams’ head of vehicle performance Dave Robson insists Williams will remain an independent outfit. “We are happy with the cooperation with Mercedes,” he said, “but Williams has always been a highly independent team. “They provide us with some amount of hardware that is extremely good but we need to take the rest of it forwards on our own, or at least be prepared to do that.Haas have very close ties to Ferrari, the American team not only running Ferrari engines but also buying all the permitted parts such as the car’s suspension from the Italian team.
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