Jost Capito is no longer F1’s Williams director

team of formula 1 williams racing This Monday, on the eve of the 2023 World Cup season, After two years at the helm as the team’s top manager and directorGerman Jost Kapito leaves the office.

Williams Racing said it would “soon” announce the name of its new team principal and technical director.

“It has been a tremendous honor to lead Williams Racing over the last two seasons and lay the foundation for the turnaround of this great team. In a press release from the team.

Capito, former head of Volkswagen Motorsport in the World Rally Championship and former McLaren, took over Williams at the end of 2020 after Dorilton Capital acquired the team from the Williams family.

Since Capito took over, Williams has bounced back from missing out on the middle stages of the championship, scoring its first points in two years at last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, ahead of Canada’s Nicholas Latifi in seventh and Great Britain’s George Russell in eighth. became. In Belgium 2021, Russell finished runner-up in a rain-shortened race.

Matthew Savage, chairman of Dorilton Capital, thanked Capito for “his hard work and dedication” as Williams embarked on a “major transformational process to begin the journey to revive” the team.

“We are grateful that Jost has postponed his planned retirement to tackle this challenge and has stepped down for the next part of this gradual process,” Savage adds.