Mercedes chief technical officer Mike Elliott has left the team in the wake of the eight-time champions’ failure to win a race this season. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said Elliott’s exit was his own decision. “It’s clear that he’s ready for new adventures beyond Mercedes,” said Wolff. After first practice at the first race of the season in Bahrain, Hamilton said that the team were “on the wrong track”. Mercedes won only one race in 2022, with George Russell in Brazil, and have failed to repeat that success at all this year. Mercedes said in a statement that Elliott had filled his time as CTO since April “focusing on developing a strategy to renew the team’s technical capacity for the years ahead”.

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