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Allison pays emotional tribute to 'warmhearted' Mercedes

Mercedes technical director James Allison described his experience of joining the German outfit in 2017 as one that helped him feel a sense of normalcy in a life turned upside down by the loss of his wife the year before. Allison was at the head of Ferrari's engineering department in 2016 when his wife Rebecca unexpectedly died of meningitis in April. The tragedy compelled Allison to spend more time in the UK with his three children, the British engineer eventually departing the Scuderia over the summer. Allison returned to F1 at the start of 2017, accepting Mercedes' offer to replace the departing Paddy Lowe as the Brackley's squad's technical director. Barnard offers reasons for...
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