Backmarker Manor on Monday said it has signed up highly-respected F1 manager and engineer Bob Bell.<\/p>\n
Ulsterman Bell resigned as Mercedes’ technical director a year ago, formally leaving the German giant last November.<\/p>\n
Most recently, it was reported the 57-year-old, who served as Renault’s interim team boss after the ‘crash-gate’ scandal of 2009, had returned to Renault and was being lined up as a potential chief for a new works team.<\/p>\n
But Manor on Monday said Bell will be “assisting the team” in 2015 as “a technical consultant”.<\/p>\n
Bell will also be “supporting and advising Manor’s senior management as they rebuild the team and formulate an ambitious long term plan”, Manor added in a statement.<\/p>\n
Also on Monday, Manor said it has signed up former Toro Rosso designer Luca Furbatto and former Caterham engineering chief Gianluca Pisanello.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a dramatic but rewarding start to our 2015 season, and we’re only now able to settle into more of a rhythm, allowing us to look to the future,” said team boss John Booth.<\/p>\n
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