{"id":24827,"date":"2026-01-20T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-mercedes-chief-designer-john-owen-to-leave-team\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:45:20","slug":"formula-1-mercedes-chief-designer-john-owen-to-leave-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/formula-1-mercedes-chief-designer-john-owen-to-leave-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Mercedes chief designer John Owen to leave team"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mercedes chief designer John Owen is to leave the team later this year.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 52-year-old has been with the team since 2007, when it was Honda, and been a key figure in championships won under the name Brawn in 2009 and Mercedes from 2010.<\/p>\n

The team won the drivers’ and constructors’ titles as Brawn and then seven drivers’ and eight constructors’ championships as Mercedes from 2014-21.<\/p>\n

A Mercedes statement said Owen would leave “after assuring the transition to his successor” and then have a period of gardening leave.<\/p>\n

There was no information on what his next career step might be.<\/p>\n

Engineering director Giacomo Tortora will become director of car design, a group overseen by deputy technical director Simone Resta, the team said.<\/p>\n

Owen worked at the Swiss Sauber team, where he became senior aerodynamicist in 2004 before his move to Honda. He started his career at the now-defunct racing-car manufacturer Reynard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Mercedes chief designer John Owen is to leave the team later this year. The 52-year-old has been with the team since 2007, when it was Honda, and been a key figure in championships won under the name Brawn in 2009 and Mercedes from 2010. The team won the drivers’ and constructors’ titles as Brawn and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24829,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions\/24829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}