London, England - The Honda Formula 1 team has signed BMW Sauber chief designer Joerg Zander as deputy technical director.

Zander, 43, worked with BAR Honda from 2002 to 2005 as a chief engineer before moving to Williams as chief designer where he worked with Loic Bigois, the Frenchman who joined Honda on Monday as head of aerodynamics
Latest in a series of appointments to boost team
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He left Williams for Swiss-based BMW Sauber in March 2006.

"This is the latest in a series of key appointments that we have made to bolster our team," senior technical director Shuhei Nakamoto said. "F1 is a rapidly changing sport and we need to evolve to keep pace.

"With the steady performance improvements we have made over the past few races and a strengthened technical team, I am sure that the difficulties we have seen in the first half of 2007 are now behind us."

Honda has scored only one point in nine races so far in the 2007 season.

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