Allison will draw on his vast F1 experience and design expertise in his role as the technical lead of the rebranded British team that will be once again skippered by four-ti﷽me Olympic gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie.

Mercedes supported the Ineos Team UK throug🌃h its applied science division in Brackley at lasꩵt year’s event as Ainslie’s squad lost out to Italy’s Luna Rossa in Auckland.

For Ineos Britannia’s latest attempt at the 37th running of the America’s Cup that will take place in 2024, Mercedes will increase its involvement by drafting in the services of Allison, wh💞o stepped back from his day-to-day role as the team’s F1 technical director earlier this year as part🔯 of a promotion to CTO. 

Allison will dovet🐽ail his role as Mercedes F1 CTO alongside assisting with Ineos Britannia’s project in the design of its AC75 boat alongside Geoffrey Willis, technical director of🔥 Mercedes Applied Sciences and Ineos Britannia, and experienced naval designer Martin Fischer. 

"When people talk about thꦐe Am꧋erica's Cup being like F1 on water, most people are thinking: 'It's a bit hydrodynamic, it's a bit aerodynamic, it's technological'," Allison said. "But the most striking comparison to me is that it's difficult.

"And the way it's worked OK for us in F1 is having the humility to admit t𝕴hat it's difficult and that your competitors will eat you up if for a moment you stop remembering that it's difficult. And this challenge is proper difficult." 

Allison continued: "Last time round, we knew of some of the difficulties the team had endured and were involved in trying to reduce some o🐻f them and try to help the boat🌜 become more competitive.

"But we knew that 💎fixing some of them would have involved a time machine. We would have had to go back and make a few decisions differently at the start of the campaign and it could have run in a different direction. 

"So we find ourselves at the beginning of a fresh one with the combined learning of the Ineos team and the part we played in the previous one coupled with all the people w💧ho've joined us from ot❀her campaigns for this one.

"We are tying to combine it to make sure all our knowledge is pooled at the beginning so we don't wish we had a time machine two years from now. We feel we have stepped through this complicate♔d design space in a good way to bring that boat that Jim talks about, the boat good enough to give Ben and the other sailors a chance to win."