Jody Egginton
Jody Egginton | |
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| Born | 28 January 1974 Coventry, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Employer | RB Formula One Team |
| Known for | Formula One engineer |
| Title | Technical director |
Jody Egginton (born 28 January 1974) is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the technical director at the RB Formula One Team.[1]
Career
[edit]Egginton started his career in motorsport at the Tyrell F1 team as a Junior Designer in 1996, for a one-year stint at the team. He subsequently went on to work for Xtrac as a Gearbox Design Engineer before moving to Germany to work for Opel Team Holzer as a Design, Race, and Test Team Engineer, where he spent the following five years.[2] Egginton momentarily worked for Aston Martin Racing as a Race & Design Engineer before returning to Formula One as a Race Engineer with Midland F1 which evolved into Spyker and later Force India. During his time he was the race engineer to Christijan Albers, Sakon Yamamoto and Giancarlo Fisichella.[1][3]
In 2010, Egginton left the Silverstone outfit and joined the fledging Team Lotus as Chief Engineer. Two years later he was promoted to Operations Director, a position he held for another two years until he joined Scuderia Toro Rosso as its Head of Vehicle Performance in 2014.[4] Three years later, Egginton was promoted to Deputy Technical Director and afterwards to Technical Director as the team became Scuderia AlphaTauri Egginton spends his time working between the two factories in Faenza and Bicester, having overall Technical responsibility for all Technical & car performance activities.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jody Egginton". Scuderia AlphaTauri.
- ^ "Jody Egginton". sidepodcast.
- ^ "Stepping out of the shadows". GP racing.
- ^ "F1 Nation: Technical Director Jody Egginton opens up on the secrets of AlphaTauri's success in 2020". F1.com.
- ^ "Egginton defends Tsunoda: Rookies have ups and downs". msn.
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- Founder
- Dietrich Mateschitz
- Advisor to Red Bull GmbH
- Helmut Marko
- Team Principal
- Franz Tost
- Personnel
- Jonathan Eddolls
- Jody Egginton
- Graham Watson
- Race winner
Pierre Gasly
- Senior team
- Red Bull Racing
- Formula One cars
- AT01
- AT02
- AT03
- AT04
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| Drivers who were promoted to Red Bull Racing | |
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- Founder
- Tony Fernandes
- Noted personnel
- Cyril Abiteboul
- Christijan Albers
- Riad Asmat
- Finbarr O'Connell
- Mike Gascoyne
- John Iley
- Colin Kolles
- Steve Nielsen
- Manfredi Ravetto
- Mark Smith
- Graham Watson
- Noted drivers
Heikki Kovalainen
Vitaly Petrov- Charles Pic
Giedo van der Garde
Marcus Ericsson
Kamui Kobayashi
André Lotterer
Will Stevens
- Formula One cars
- CT01
- CT03
- CT05
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