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Tutors for April - May 2025 include:
Head of Driver Academy
Guillaume Rocquelin - Head of Driver Academy
Rocky began his motorsport career at Reynard Racing cars in 1993, after which he moved to the US as Senior Race Engineer for Newman/Haas Racing in CART/IndyCar. In 2006 he joined Red Bull Racing where he race engineered David Coulthard and later Sebastian Vettel, contributing to Red Bull’s four consecutive world championships. In 2015 he was promoted to Head of Race Engineering.
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 15 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 helps to make decisions on set-up, strategy and tyre management. Ciaron has recently been promoted to Technical Director (Performance) at BWT Alpine F1 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.
Formula 1 Trackside Engineer
Robert Farrell - Formula 1 Trackside Engineer
Robert’s professional career started with Avon Tyres Motorsport, as their motorsport product development engineer, alongside this he studied for a Masters in Advanced Motorsport Engineering. Robert worked trackside as support engineer to multiple race series, at a variety levels. His main series was ‘The Road to Indy series’ supporting Indycar and working with Indy lights (now Indy NXT). In 2021, Robert attended the MIA school of Race Engineering. In 2023 he began working with Goodyear, supporting WEC and ELMS, completing the LeMans 24 and also assisting development for LMGT3. Robert now works for Pirelli Motorsport as a Formula 1 Trackside Engineer, last year working for Haas F1 and currently assigned to Kick Sauber attending every race.
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.
Lead Strategy Engineer
Faïssal Fdil - Lead Strategy Engineer
Faïssal Fdil has had a ten years career in senior race strategy positions in Formula 1 and Formula E, making live race strategy calls, developing prediction models and leading strategy groups. With experience at Haas F1 Team, Sauber F1 Team and NIO Formula E, he also shares his expertise as a visiting lecturer in Race Strategy at ESTACA.
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 2019, 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 20 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.
Race Engineer
Jenner Collins - Race Engineer
Jenner’s motorsport career began in 1997 volunteering for multiple Australian motorsport teams, including Volvo Racing Australia. After moving to the UK, he worked as a Wind Tunnel Technician at Jaguar Racing F1 and then Williams F1. He joined Wirth Research in 2006, whilst studying for a BEng in Motorsport. Working his way up from R&D engineer to the Head of the department, motorsport projects included LMP1, Indycar and F1. In 2014 he set up his own prototype vehicle development agency, Collins Limited. Since 2019 he’s Race Engineered for West Surrey Racing, Motorbase Performance and Team HARD, winning multiple races.
Design Engineer
Ollie Vobe - Design Engineer
Ollie is an Oxford Brookes Graduate of Motorsport Engineering where he spent his industrial placement year with Xtrac. This led to working as a Graduate Design Engineer after graduating. Ollie is now a Design Engineer where he mainly works on designing Sportscar and Single Seater motorsport transmissions.
Analysis Technical Specialist
Ben Cahill - Analysis Technical Specialist
Ben graduated from Cardiff University in 2014 with an MEng Mechanical Engineering during which he spent a year as a Production Engineer at Toyota. Following his graduation Ben remained at Cardiff undertaking a PhD in collaboration with Mercedes Petronas, this led on to him joining Ricardo as a Design Engineer designing motorsport transmissions before moving to Xtrac in 2022. Where he is now a Technical Specialist, focusing on the analysis of the designs.
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
Rob Sharp - Race Engineer
Rob has worked as a Data and Race Engineer in a number of championships including WEC, Carrera Cup, BTCC and British GT. He joined Multimatic in 2021 as a Vehicle Dynamics Engineer where he operated the Kinematic and Compliance Rig as well as the 4 Post Rig and Driver in the Loop Simulator. Rob left Multimatic at the end of 2023 and is now a race engineer in GTWC and WEC.
Many more still to be announced!
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