Former top engineer at Williams, Rob Smedley, has been signed up by Liberty Media. Towards the end of Williams' abysmal 2018 season, Smedley announced that he is leaving. Now, it has emerged that he is taking up an official F1 role as technical consultant. It is believed Smedley was headhunted by Ross Brawn, his former Ferrari colleague and now F1 sporting boss. 'In conversations with Ross, we were both of the opinion that there's this really rich seam of technical content, of data, of the way that teams operate, that actually never gets told,' Smedley said. At his former team, things are going less well. Claire Williams has announced that the Grove based team is not ready to start testing...
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