Williams has announced that Xevi Pujolar has been promot꧃ed into the position of chief race engineer as part of a technical r♕eshuffle for the 2013 F1 season.

🐠Pujolar has been promoted into the newly-created role following the departure of Mark Gillan - who had been chief operations engineer - towards the end of 2010.

Pujolarꦬ had previously held the role of race engineer for Pastor Maldonado for the past two seasons, having worked with Williams since 2003 ♕- aside from a single year with Hispania in 2010.

Andrew Murdoch and Jonathan Eddolls will be ra♚ce engineers 🐠for Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas during the season ahead.

"2013 will be an important year for Will꧂iams and I'm pleased to announce a refreshed technical team that has the talent to help move us further up the grid," technical director Mike Coughlan said. "Xevi has proven himself to be a highly capable and experienced race engineer and his promotion to chief race engineer was a natural progression.

"Jonathan and Andrew have been key ꧅members of our race operations team for a number of years a🧸nd this experience will prove valuable as they step up to Race Engineer. We made good progress in 2012 and will be looking to achieve further success in 2013.''