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Ciaron Pilbeam - Head of Trackside Engineering
Confirmed for November 2023
Ciaron has over 14 years experience working as a Race Engineer for 6 different F1 teams, including BAR Honda, Red Bull Racing, Lotus F1 Team, McLaren Racing, Renault Sport Racing F1 Team and now Alpine F1 Team.
Paula Garcia Ruiz - Aerodynamicist
Confirmed for November 2023
Paula started her career as a Junior development Aerodynamicist at Williams Racing. Paula is now working as an Aero Science and Technology Aerodynamicist for Alpine F1 Team and works on developing new systems and technologies to enhance the performance of the Formula 1 car.
Aerodynamics Consultant
Willem Toet - Aerodynamics Consultant
Confirmed for November 2023
Willem Toet is a renowned aerodynamicist who has headed aero departments of 4 F1 teams including Ferarri and most recently Sauber. With over 30 years' experience in F1, Willem not only knows all the aerodynamic tricks used in racing but he's pioneered them too!
James Knapton - Chief Race Engineer - Performance
Confirmed for November 2023
James Knapton has enjoyed a rich career in Formula 1, as the Head of Vehicle Science at Force India, Sauber, Manor F1 teams and at Red Bull Advanced Technologies. James is now working in motorsport as a Chief Engineer - Performance.
Race Engineer
Geoff Dymott - Race Engineer
Confirmed for November 2023
Geoff worked for Williams Racing for over 20 years as a Vehicle Dynamics, Race/Test Data Engineer and Senior Performance Engineer. Geoff also race engineered in F4 and Porsche Carrera Cup for Richardson Racing.
Race Driver
Callum Cripps - Race Driver
Confirmed for November 2023
Callum has been involved in motorsport since he was 10 years old. He has raced in Ginetta GT5, Clio Cup, Formula Renault, GT and NASCAR. In 2019 he finished 5th in the EuroNASCAR championship with 50% podium finishes.
Head of Race Strategy
Peter Hall - Head of Race Strategy
Peter graduated from the University of Cambridge with a MSc in Aerospace and Aerothermal Engineering in 2014. After graduating, he worked at Red Bull Racing as a Simulation and Modelling Engineer and then switched to Sauber F1 Team as a Race Strategist. In 2020, he joined Aston Martin F1 Team where he now heads up the Race Strategy department.
Strategy Engineer
Andrew Steel - Strategy Engineer
After studying an MSc in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Manchester, Andrew began his career at Jaguar Land Rover as a Graduate Engineer. During this time he completed a variety of placements, including 10 months at the Panasonic Jaguar Racing Formula E team. In 2020, he joined the Aston Martin F1 team as a Strategy Engineer where he helps develop strategy tools and support the trackside team during race weekends.
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. His next role involves looking after the junior driver programme.
Andy Cowell -
Former Managing Director at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains
Andy Cowell, FEng, FIMechE
After time at Cosworth and BMW Motorsport, Andy joined Mercedes-Ilmor in 2004. He was elevated to Managing Director in 2013 until 2020. He oversaw the creation of the V6 turbo-hybrid power unit that made Mercedes the dominant force in Formula 1 from 2014-2019 winning 12 consecutive Formula One world titles in both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships.
Vehicle Dynamics Engineer
Rob Sharp - Vehicle Dynamics 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 operates the Kinematic and Compliance Rig as well as the 4 Post Rig and Driver in the Loop Simulator.
General Sales Manager
Iain Gordon - General Sales Manager
Iain studied Mechanical & Production Engineering and has over 30 years’ experience in Applications, Calibration, Engineering and Sales and Marketing of a wide range of high performance instruments across many industries. In 2016 he joined Evolution Measurement as Export Sales Manager where he works with a variety of categories of motorsport, helping them to improve their aerodynamic measurement capabilities.
Senior Analyst
Craig Bremner - Principal Engineer
Craig Bremner joined the Advanced Engineering department of Xtrac in 2016. His daily tasks involve analysing component designs as well as optimising transmission solutions and their performance.
Senior Research &
Development Engineer
Harry Stanton - R&D Engineer
Harry graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2020 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Later that year he joined Xtrac as an R&D Engineer where he is involved in several motorsport transmission projects.
Race Engineer
Craig Porley - Race Engineer
Craig has been working in motorsport for over 15 years. Alongside full time jobs at Xtrac and Red Bull Racing, he is also a Race Engineer in BTCC having previously worked for West Surrey Racing, Eurotech Racing and now WSR.
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.
Data and Systems Engineer
Charlotte Phelps - Data and Systems Engineer
After finishing her studies, Charlotte worked at Mercedes HPP and was promoted to Strategy Engineer in 2019. She spends her free weekends Data Engineering for Barwell Motorsport, running two Lamborghinis in British GT. Charlotte is now a Data and Systems for Engineer for W Series.
Data Engineer
Victoria Guppy - Data Engineer
Victoria has worked trackside for the last 10 years for F3 and BTCC race teams and joined Manor Racing F1 in 2015 as Trackside Systems Engineer. Now, she spends her weekends data engineering for BTC Racing.
Trackside Engineer
Jason Carpenter - Trackside Engineer
Jason has spent the last 17 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.
Technical Sales
Ian Nash - Technical Sales
Ian joined AP Racing in 1984 and progressed to Section Leader for Design and Development of motorsport brakes and clutches. He then became Chief Engineer and is now Technical Sales and Business Development Manager.
Director
Paul Crowhurst - Director
Paul has been involved in the engineering behind complex measurement solutions since 1990, working for a variety of companies in several different roles. In 2005, he became Managing Director and Co-Founder of Calibration Dynamics and in 2016 founded a new company called Evolution Measurement where he still works today.
Gemma Hatton
Gemma has worked trackside in BTCC, GT and as an F1 Tyre engineer for Pirelli and Manor F1. She has also been Deputy Editor of Racecar Engineering Magazine and now runs her own technical writing business.
Race Engineer
Josep Roca - Race Engineer
Josep began his motorsport career Race Engineering in ETCC and GT Open for SUNRED in 2007. In 2011 he joined the Driver-in-the-loop department in Williams F1 as Mechanical and Simulator Race Engineer. In 2014 he moved to Williams Advanced Engineering, working on a variety of road car prototype projects. He switched to electric racing in 2016 where he joined Jaguar Racing as a Race Engineer.
Many more still to be announced!
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