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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 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.
James Knapton
Head of Performance Analysis
James Knapton has enjoyed a rich career in Formula 1. He has worked for 8 different F1 teams, including Jordan Grand Prix, Midland F1, Spyker F1 and has been Head of Vehicle Science at Force India, Sauber, Manor Racing and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, where he worked on the Aston Martin Valkyrie project. James is now working as Head of Performance Analysis for the Cadillac Formula 1 Team.
Guillaume Ducreux - Race Strategy Analyst
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 Race Strategy Analyst.
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.
Aerodynamics Performance Engineer
Edouard Bissen - Aerodynamics Performance Engineer
Edouard started his motorsport career in 2016 as a Race Engineer in GT4. He studied a PhD in Fluid Mechanics in 2016-2019. Since then Edouard has been a Aerodynamicist in Formula One, first at Haas F1 Team and in 2023 he moved to Oracle Red Bull Racing as a Aero Performance Engineer.
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.
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.
Tyre Science engineer
Antonis Palaskas - Tyre Science engineer
Antonis Palaskas holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Greece and a masters in Motorsport Engineering from Oxford Brookes university. Currently, he works as Tyre Science engineer in the Vehicle Dynamics department of Atlassian Williams Racing F1. In his previous job he was a Tyre Engineer for Jaguar TCS Racing in the Formula E championship.
Race Engineer
Craig Porley - Race Engineer
Craig’s motorsport experience stretches to nearly 22 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 with WSR in BTCC and has set up his own engineering consultancy.
Rohin Bakrania - Junior Wind Tunnel Engineer
Rohin Bakrania started his motorsport career at Oxford Brookes University, completing a Masters in Motorsport Engineering. In 2022 Rohin attended the MIA School of Race Engineering to further enhance his motorsport knowledge and network. He now works for Red Bull Racing as a Junior Wind Tunnel Engineer and during the weekends he works as trackside support in the Porsche Carrera Cup Championship.
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!
Race Engineer
Jason Carpenter - Race Engineer
Jason has spent the last 20 years working in F1. Starting off at Williams, Jason then worked as an F1 Tyre Engineer for Pirelli. Now, he manages the brake and clutch components that AP Racing supply to several F1 teams.
Strategy Simulation Engineer
Tom Webster - Strategy Simulation Engineer
Tom graduated from Cranfield University with a Master’s Degree in Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics. He then went to Mahindra Formula E Team as a Energy Management Controls Engineer. In 2024, Tom moved to Envision Racing Formula E Team where he is now responsible for Strategy Simulation.
Simulator Engineer
Michael Leonard - Simulator Engineer
Michael joined Andretti Racing as an Aero Performance Engineer in 2023 after graduating from Loughborough University with MEng Automotive Engineering. During this time he worked for Racing Point and Aston Martin Formula 1 Team for a total of 18months - spending time in Aerodynamics, R&D and Vehicle Performance. Start of 2025, Michael joined Atlassian Williams Racing as a Simulator Engineer.
Deputy Technical Director
Dominic Harlow - Deputy Technical Director
Dominic is part of the engineering team at the FIA who are developing F1 regulations. He has also worked for BMW in DTM, Williams F1 and Force India as well as other leading Race Engineering roles.
Many more still to be announced!
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