The Williams Formulation One staff on Thursday introduced key modifications to its management because it leaves behind the Williams household period and enters the one beneath the management of new owner Dorilton Capital.

The staff has named Jost Capito as CEO. He begins the brand new position on February 1, 2021, and can report back to Matthew Savage, chairman of Williams and Dorilton Capital.

The staff has additionally confirmed that Simon Roberts will stay as staff principal. Roberts, who will report back to Capito, took over the position in September following the departure of Frank Williams and his daughter Claire Williams.

Capito has had fairly the various profession and has influenced each the manufacturing and racing sides of the automotive world. His final position was head of the Volkswagen R efficiency and motorsport division, and previous to that he had a short stint as CEO of the McLaren F1 staff.

He additionally headed VW’s massively profitable World Rally Championship staff which received the three-straight titles final decade. Previous to working at VW he labored at Ford’s former SVT efficiency division the place he was liable for variations of automobiles just like the Ford Focus RS and F-150 Raptor.

Capito raced himself in his early profession. For example, again within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, he raced bikes and even received the truck class of the 1985 Dakar Rally together with his father in a Mercedes Unimog. He is additionally labored at BMW M, Porsche, and the previous Jordan and Sauber F1 groups.

“It’s a fantastic honour for me to affix Williams Racing throughout these thrilling and demanding occasions for each the staff and for Formulation One,” Capito mentioned in an announcement. “It’s an honour to be part of the way forward for this storied staff, and one which carries such a poignant title within the sport, so I method this problem with nice respect and with an enormous quantity of relish.”

Williams is without doubt one of the most profitable groups in F1, having racked up seven Drivers’ Championship and 9 Constructors’ Championship titles beneath its belt. Nonetheless, the staff, which at the moment depends on Mercedes-Benz AMG energy models, hasn’t received a grand prix since 2012. Its present drivers are George Russell and Nicholas Latifi.