Mercedes has expanded its technical relationship with Williams to incorporate the availability of gearboxes and hydraulics from 2022 onward.

Mercedes has equipped the British crew with engines since 2014, however will increase the deal subsequent 12 months to incorporate “sure transferable parts”, together with the gearbox and associated hydraulic parts.

Method One’s guidelines enable for sure parts to be purchased from a rival crew, that are identified within the rules as “non-listed components”.

Williams has traditionally produced a lot of non-listed components in-house and brought satisfaction in being an impartial crew, however below its new house owners — who took cost of the crew from the Williams household in September — it’s set mimic the enterprise mannequin of a lot of its rival groups, which depend on provide offers with greater groups.

“I am happy to see our nice relationship with Mercedes prolong past the availability of engines,” Williams crew principal Simon Roberts stated.

“Williams is an impartial crew, however Method One is at all times evolving, and as a crew we have to be agile to react to the present local weather with a purpose to put the crew in the very best place to be aggressive on monitor.

“This long-term settlement with Mercedes is a constructive step and types a part of our strategic goals for the longer term while we are going to nonetheless retain our design and manufacturing capabilities in-house.”

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff stated the expanded provide cope with Williams had been within the works for a while.

“We’re happy to increase our technical cooperation with Williams by means of this new settlement,” Wolff stated. “For Williams, it is sensible to amass the built-in powertrain after working our energy models since 2014 and for our crew, it is sensible when it comes to economies of scale to produce one other crew below the brand new guidelines.

“This can be a challenge we now have been discussing with Williams for a while and I’m glad we now have been in a position to convey this extension to fruition.”

Mercedes already provides engines, gearboxes and outboard suspension components to Aston Martin (previously Racing Level), which primarily based the design of its 2020 automotive on Mercedes’ 2019 chassis with a big diploma of success final 12 months.

An overhaul of the F1 rules in 2022 means the timing of Williams’ deal will marry with a totally new automotive design subsequent 12 months.

Williams hopes the brand new provide deal will enable it to focus its assets on parts of the automotive that may extra immediately affect efficiency. The crew confirmed it can “proceed to design and manufacture different chassis components internally”.