The designer responsible for the radical 'walrus' front-end treatment that 'graced' this year's Williams-BMW FW26 untiꩵl 🐠the summer break is to leave the Grove team.

Paddock rumours have been confirmed by news agency Reuters, which quotes a team spokesman as saying that former chief aerodynamicist Antonia Terzi would be replaced by former Ligier, Prost, Sauber and Minardi💖 man Loic Bigo♑is.

The 44-year old Fren⛎chman has been employed by Williams for the past year and, like Terzi is an aerodynamics specialist. H🌠e served two terms at Ligier/Prost either side of a spell with Sauber, but left to join Minardi shortly before the French team perished.

The Williams spokesman confirmed that Te🐷rzi had left her post on Wednesday, but insisted that the squad - which won the final grand prix of the year just over a week ago - was not expecting any delays in the production of the new FW27.

"There are no concerns about any rupture in the design process," he said. "Lo☂ic has been working on the FW27 all alo🌞ng."