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WILLIAMS: Jost CAPITO will be the new CEO

The former first husband of VW Motorsport, Jost Capito, who also worked for McLaren for a few months, is returning to F1 as executive director of the Williams team. Simon Robers remains head of the team.

After they are Frank in Claire Williams sold the team to a U.S. investment group this summer Dorilton Capital, the latter made the first personnel moves after the end of the season, with which they want to bring the once extremely successful team closer to the top again.

The new head of the company's management Williams Racing will become effective on February 1st Jost capito, who started his career in motorsport as a motorcyclist, also competed in endurance Dakar Rally, and joined in the late XNUMXs BMW and worked there on the development of powertrains.

In 1989, he joined the sports department Porsche motorsport, seven years later he was a manager at Sauber, two years later he was also the executive director of the mentioned company, then he held managerial positions in sports programs. Ford in Volkswagen, and in 2016 it was a few months McLarn's first husband in Formula 1, but soon went back to Volkswagen.

You are now Nemec also challenged in Formula 1: "It's a great honor for me to have the opportunity to lead such a legendary team as Williams Racing in these exciting and challenging times."

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