Williams has announced that Xevi Pujolar has been promoted into the position of c♋hief race engineer as part of a tech🧜nical reshuffle for the 2013 F1 season.

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

Pujolar had previously held the role of race engineer for🌞 Pastor Maldonado for the past two seasons, having worked with Will▨iams since 2003 - aside from a single year with Hispania in 2010.

Andrew Murdoch and Jonathan Eddolls will be race engineers fo🧔r Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas during the season ahead.

"2013 will be an important year for Williams and I'm pleased to announce a refreshed technical team tha⛦t 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 and 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.''