HENIUS who returned to F1 revealed the reason for his MYSTERIOUS retirement

The English engineer and designer, multi-champion with Ferrari, Renault and Mercedes, returns to the Toto Wolf team after a surprising resignation in 2021.

This weekend at Grand Prix of Azerbaijanwill have one of the most important returns to Formula 1. James Allisonthe renowned English engineer and designer, multi-champion with Ferrari, Renault and Mercedeswill return to the group of Toto Lobo as technical director two years after his second retirementthe first for the death of his wife and the second for a mysterious motive, which he finally reveals.

Allison, success with Schumacher and Alonso and the death of his wife keeping him away from F1

Born on February 21, 1968 in Lincolnshire, England, James Allison. He studied at Cambridge University and started in the aerodynamics department of Benettonalso passed Larrousse and finally In the year 2000 he went to Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari for five years and became champion in all of them.. In 2005 and 2006 he was in Fernando Alonso’s Renault, where he won two more titles.

As technical director of Ferrari, In 2016, his wife Rebecca died of meningitis. which killed him in just a few days. “There are words in our vocabulary that we all reach for in times of tragedy, words like ‘cruel,’ ‘horrible,’ ‘indescribable,’ ‘immeasurable,’ ‘pain,’ ‘loss,’ ‘ torn,’ and ‘broken. .’ They’re all True, they all describe how we feel, but they can’t express what it’s like to lose someone like Rebecca.” He wrote on his social networks about who is the mother of his three children. In this way, He decided to step aside and dedicate himself to his family.

His triumphant return with Hamilton and his mysterious resignation

A year after moving away from Ferrari for the death of his wife Rebecca, James Allison felt ready to return to the tracks and he did so in Mercedes. For the next three seasons, in 2018, 2019 and 2020 he was champion with Lewis Hamilton.

“Mercedes chose a grieving man”they will comment on the beginning of their new cycle. “I was crying in my car when I left from home to work, and I was crying on the way back. I am a grieving person, I still am despite the fact that four years have passed since the death of the mother of my children,” announced in 2020. “It was a time when I wanted to go into a hole and never come out. But Toto gave me the opportunity to go to Mercedes and I accepted it, thinking that I would be able to return to the world little by little. As I approached the factory gates in Brackley, I felt a little stronger and more useful. As the weeks passed and turned into months and eventually turned into years, the bet Toto made on me, I hope has paid off in usefulness.”, added.

Anyway, in 2021, and to everyone’s surprise, he walks away again. This time surprising and work in a new sector of the company, dedicated to sailing boats. Something that keeps the world of motorsports in suspense and he did not explain, until his recent return.

“It has to do with the very, very long shadow cast on me by my husband’s death. Years later I was fortunate enough to meet another man, who at that time was living and working in France, and spent his whole life there”announced on the podcast F1 Country after confirming his return to the team of Toto Lobowhere they run Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. “When he kindly and selflessly gave his fortune to me so that we could live together, I was giving up a lot.. It seems a bit unfair in my view to just let him drift off and say ‘thanks for coming to England, see you for five minutes a week’. He’s rooted to do his own thing without relying on me.”he concluded.

This way, this weekend and on Grand Prix of Azerbaijan, James Allison will once again be part of the Mercedes teamin his third return to Formula 1, where he was one of the greatest masterminds.