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.

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.

Matthew Schofield

Principal Aerodynamicist

Matthew Schofield - Principal Aerodynamicist

Matt has 20 years of aerodynamic development experience, having worked for Alpha Tauri, McLaren and Sauber F1 teams through various changes of regulations in both aerodynamics and CFD. He is currently working for Red Bull Advanced Technologies on a broad range of projects.

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.

Faïssal Fdil

Senior Strategy

Engineer

Faïssal Fdil - Senior 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.

Faheem Ud-din

Senior Analysis Engineer

Faheem Ud-din - Senior Analysis Engineer

Faheem has been at Xtrac for just over two years, joining in 2022 after leaving his previous graduate role in the Nuclear Industry. Faheem is involved in a multitude of projects. As an Analysis Engineer at Xtrac, he is involved with all types of products across the business. Track-day only cars, high performance automotive (HPA) and motorsport are all sectors where he is involved in, typically by designing gears and performing structural analysis.

Cameron Reedy

Senior R&D Engineer

Cameron Reedy - Senior R&D Engineer

Cameron studied Mechanical Engineering with an integrated foundation and masters year between 2017 - 2022 at Liverpool John Moores University. He joined Xtrac in July 2022 as a Graduate Research and Development Engineer, before progressing into his current Research and Development Engineer role, the following year. During his time at Xtrac, he has worked across a range of motorsport projects (Indycar, Formula E, GT3), since August 2023 he has solely been working on the Czinger hypercar transmission

Michael Leonard

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.

Lauren Maguire

Strategy Engineer

Lauren Maguire - Strategy Engineer

Lauren has a MSci in Natural Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) from the University of Durham. She joined Alpine F1 in Jan 22 as a Junior Business Intelligence Analyst, here she worked with a wide range of areas of the factory, learning about how the different aspects of the team work together to optimise the car on track. Lauren then moved over to Data Science, developing coding skills further and working closer with Performance groups, alongside this she spent a lot of time volunteering and shadowing the Strategy group. In August 2025 she moved to the role of Strategy Engineer as a car strategist.

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.

Steve Bunkhall

Former Race Engineer

Steve Bunkhall - Former Race Engineer

Steve Bunkhall originally trained as a chemist and in 1988 joined Lola Cars as a project manager where he was responsible for car instrumentation, data acquisition and wind tunnel testing. Since 1993 he has worked as a freelance Race Engineer, at first in Super Touring and DTM with Opel before moving on to specialise in sports cars, notably Ferrari GTE’s. He has engineered cars to victories in FIA GT, WEC and all versions of the ACO Le Mans Series championships.