Williams ha𒁃s announced ✃that Xevi Pujolar has been promoted into the position of chief race engineer as part of a technical reshuffle 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.

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

Andrew Murdoch and Jonathan Eddolls will be race enginee🃏rs for 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 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 en💛gineer 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 loo🦹king to ac🍸hieve further success in 2013.''