Entry route
Engineering degree, trackside years in F3/F2/GP2 or endurance racing, then into an F1 team (or promoted internally).
Highlights
Aerospace-engineering graduate (Padua, 110/110 cum laude) who began in design at Pagani (Huayra/Zonda) and Dallara before moving into race engineering
Climbed Prema Racing's junior single-seater ladder (2012-2017), engineering future F1 drivers including Lance Stroll, Nick Cassidy and Maximilian Gunther
Seven years at the Silverstone team (Force India -> Racing Point -> Aston Martin, 2017-2024) as trackside performance engineer to Alonso, Stroll, Perez and Hulkenberg
F1 race-engineering debut at Sauber in 2024, engineering Guanyu Zhou to the team's only points of the season
Reunited with Sergio Perez as his race engineer for Cadillac's 2026 debut
Research notes
Substantially enriched and corrected via his public LinkedIn (fetched through Tavily). Italian;
MSc in Aerospace Engineering at Universita di Padova (2004-2010, 110/110 cum laude) after a Liceo Classico in Este. Began as a designer at Pagani (Huayra/Zonda) and Dallara (2010-2012), then climbed Prema Racing's junior single-seater ladder from data engineer to race engineer across Italian F3, Formula Renault 2.0 and FIA F3 (2012-2017), engineering Lance Stroll, Nick Cassidy and 2016 title contender Maximilian Gunther. Joined the Silverstone F1 team (Force India, later Racing Point/Aston Martin) in Jan 2017 as a trackside performance engineer (Alonso, Stroll, Perez, Hulkenberg). CORRECTION vs earlier record: he did NOT move directly from Aston Martin to Cadillac - he joined Sauber in July 2024 as a senior performance engineer and stepped up to race engineer for Guanyu Zhou in H2 2024 (his F1 RE debut, scoring the team's only points of the year), before joining Cadillac as Perez's race engineer for 2026. (His LinkedIn still lists Sauber as current, not yet updated for the Cadillac move, which 2026 news confirms.) f1_debut_year 2017;
years_to_race_engineer = 7 (F1 entry 2017 -> F1 RE 2024). Born c.1985 (approx, from Liceo 1999-2004 + Padua 2004-2010). Route updated to uni-junior-formula-to-f1;
confidence raised medium -> high.