McLaren's technical director Paddy Lowe will leave at the end of the year, the team has confirmed.
Tim Goss has taken over from Lowe 'with immediate effect'. Lowe has been linked with a move to Mercedes and is expected to join them in time for the 2014 season.
Lowe joined McLaren in 1993 and has been the team's technical director since 2011.
Goss has been with McLaren since 1990 and was responsible for the team's MP4-23, MP4-25 and MP4-27 cars, which scored a total of 18 Grand Prix victories, as well as this year's MP4-28.
'I'd like to offer my congratulations to Tim on his new position, which, after more than 20 years of exceptional service for McLaren, he richly deserves,' said team principal Martin Whitmarsh.
'It's a little-known fact, for example, that over the past 23 years he's made crucial technical and engineering contributions to the winning of five of McLaren's 12 drivers' world championships and three of McLaren's eight constructors' world championships, and that he's been the principal definer and developer of McLaren's F1 car design function for more than five years.'
'I firmly believe that our technical and engineering team is the best in the F1 business,' he added, 'and that its strength in depth has always been and will continue to be an important element of our on-track success.'
Whitmarsh said Lowe 'will be performing a different role within McLaren until the end of the year'. 'We wish him well when he embarks on a fresh challenge in 2014.'
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