What “gladiator” Allison’s reappointment reveals about Mercedes’ current F1 shortcomings

On Friday morning, Autosport revealed that Allison is going back to the previous position he held at the team, with his successor Mike Elliott swapping roles in the other direction and becoming the team’s chief technical officer.

In several ways, this is starkly new ground for the modern Mercedes squad, i that it finds itself in such dire straits compared to its years as F1’s dominator that a major change to its technical staff has been felt necessary and that it hasn’t…