The MIA School of Race Engineering attracts world-leading race engineering tutors.

April-May tutors include:

Mark Preston

Motorsports Director

Mark Preston - Motorsports Director

With a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mark joined Arrows Grand Prix and McLaren F1 before creating the Super Aguri F1 team with Honda, in just 100 days. Mark recently delivered five ABB FIA Formula E (World Championship) Teams and Drivers Championship and is the most successful Team Principal in Formula E. Mark’s new role at Lola Cars is to build the future of this iconic racing brand. They will focus on new “energy carriers” being developed for powertrains of the future with three pillars of battery electric, hydrogen and synthetic fuels.

Ciaron Pilbeam

Technical Director (Performance)

Ciaron Pilbeam Technical Director ‑ Performance

Ciaron has a wealth of experience in race engineering, having worked as a Race Engineer in F1 for over 25 years. In that time, he has worked for five different F1 teams, including the likes of BAR Honda, Red Bull Racing, Lotus F1 Team, McLaren Racing and now Alpine F1 Team. He has been the Head of Trackside Engineering, where he managed both driver’s trackside engineering teams and helped to make decisions on set-up, strategy and tyre management. Ciaron has been promoted to Technical Director (Performance) at BWT Alpine F1 Team.

Guillaume Ducreux

Trackside Strategy Engineer

Guillaume Ducreux - Trackside Strategy Engineer

Guillaume joined Alpine F1 Team as a full-time Strategy Engineer, assisting car strategists in simulations before progressing to the role of car strategist. Guillaume now works at Oracle Red Bull Racing as a Trackside Strategy Engineer.

Simon Dickinson

Track Support Engineer

Simon Dickinson - Track Support Engineer

As part of Goodyear's Track Support Team Simon has worked in multiple championships with many varieties of car, ranging from historic Minis to contemporary Le Mans Prototypes. He has provided support to Goodyear's customers, advising on tyre management, strategy, and setup to optimise tyre durability and performance.

Geoff Dymott

Race Engineer

Geoff Dymott - Race Engineer

Geoff has worked for Williams Racing for over 20 years in a variety of roles, including Vehicle Dynamics, Race / Test Data Engineer and Senior Performance Engineer. Starting his own consultancy in 2020, Geoff has also been a Race Engineer in British F4, Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Richardson Racing and more recently Century Motorsport in British GT.

Callum Cripps

Race Driver

Callum Cripps - Race Driver

Callum has been involved in motorsport since he was ten years old, racing in numerous karting championships before he moved to car racing in 2015. Since then, he has been behind the wheel of a variety of racecars including a Ginetta GT5, Clio Cup, Formula Renault, GT and even NASCAR. In 2019 he finished 5th in the EuroNASCAR championship with 50% podium finishes throughout the season. He is also an official simulator driver for Radicals Online.

Craig Porley

Race Engineer

Craig Porley - Race Engineer

Craig’s motorsport experience stretches to nearly 25 years. Starting off as a composite technician back in 2004, Craig moved to Xtrac as an R&D Engineer and then Red Bull Racing as a Test Engineer where he ran programs on chassis, suspension and aerodynamic components. Alongside his full time work, Craig has also been a Senior Data Engineer, winning the 2011 FIA GT1 drivers championship, and a Race Engineer for several BTCC teams, where he won the independent drivers and team title in 2019. Now, he race engineers for Laser Tools Racing in the BTCC and has set up his own engineering consultancy.

Matt Stratton

Race Engineer

Matt Stratton - Race Engineer

Matt, after graduating with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University, started at Ilmor Engineering as a Design Engineer. He then joined Alpine F1 team in the Powertrain team, again as a Design Engineer, but hoping to work his way across to a more Performance Engineering focused role. In March 2023, he started work as a Race Engineer in the Spanish F4 Championship with Rodin Carlin before progressing up to the FIA F3 team for 2024. Start of 2025, Matt was promoted to the FIA F2 Rodin team. Working trackside has been a realisation of his dreams growing up, and he loves his current role, completing the MIA School of Race Engineering in 2021 was a very beneficial step in this journey!