Mercedes Formula 1 🎐🍰engine chief Andy Cowell is to leave his role as managing director next month amid a major revision to its management structure. 

Cowell has been an instrumental figure in Mercedes’ success throughout the V6 hybrid e🦋ra by developing one of the most successful power units in F1 history. Mercedes has won six consecutive world championship doubles in this time. 

He will depart ♌his position on July 1 after working at ꦍMercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) for the past 16 years.

A new leadership team will be put in place, with 🍒Hywel Thomas taking over as managing director with direct responsibility for the power unit. Adam Allsopp, Richard Stevens and Ronald Ballhaus will comprise the rest of the management structure to guide the company’s engine div🅠isions.

Cowell informed the team of his intention to leave earlie🐈r this year in January and will help to ensure a smooth transition of his responsibilities among the senior leadership team, and will "consult to Mercedes-Benz AG on a major 💞future project until at least early 2021".

"After 16 enjoyable years working for HPP, I have decided that now is the ri❀ght time to move on from my role and seek a new engineering business challenge,” Cowell said.

“I have appreciated the opportunity to work with Markus [Schäfer, Daimler] and Toto in defining the future leadership structure of the company and I have every confidence in the ability of Hywel and the te𝓡am to lead the company forward.

“It has been an absolute honour t💛o work for Mercedes and especially to be Managing Director of HPP for seven years.”

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff paid tribute to Cowell’s “outstanding contribution” and is confident the team’s engine operation👍s will remain in a “very strong position” moving forwards.

"Andy's leꩲadership of the team at HPP has been a key f🦩actor in our championship success in recent seasons,” Wolff said.

“He has ꦆmade an outstanding contribution to our motorsport legacy and I have valued and enjoyed our working relationship sin🦂ce 2013; I am sure he will enjoy great success in the next challenge he decides to take on.

“Our ph🌌ilosophy has always been that a winning team is a dynamic organisation, and that change is a natural part of every company's development.

“I am pa🐼rticularly pleased that we have been able to work together to create a new leadership structure, by building on the strength in depth of the team ♎in Brixworth.

“It pu🐠ts us in a very strong position for the years ahead, as we aim to set new benchmarks in Formula 1 and Formula💫 E.”