Elliott was Mercedes’ technical director for 2 years till earlier this season, when he swapped jobs with James Allison.

However he’s now exiting the crew altogether. Mercedes wrote on social media that he “has chosen to depart”.

It’s a main reshuffle within the technical division at Mercedes, who’re reacting to back-to-back below-par F1 seasons in an try to offer Lewis Hamilton and George Russell a aggressive automotive in 2024.

Elliott’s exit is a big transfer in Mercedes probably altering path and concepts with their W15 automotive for subsequent yr.

He first arrived at Mercedes in 2012, heading up the aerodynamics division earlier than changing into know-how director.

He turned technical director in 2021 – changing Allison – and was a key contributor to creating Mercedes’ first automotive for the ground-effect rules that began in 2022.

However the W14 final season, particularly, was a hard automotive main to a different job swap with Allison, who had held an important function in constructing the earlier era of F1 automobiles.

In current months, Mercedes have deserted the ‘zeropod’ philosophy and moved in the direction of the identical idea which Pink Bull have used to nice success.

Mercedes hope that, in 2024, they will once more problem for the drivers’ and constructors’ titles.