Research notes
Dave Robson was born in October 1976 and studied Engineering Science (MEng) at Oxford University. He entered F1 in 2000 by joining McLaren, starting as a Junior Stress Engineer, then working through the stress department and test engineering;
he was Heikki Kovalainen's Performance Engineer in 2008-2009, and from 2010 was Jenson Button's Performance Engineer, quickly being promoted to his Race Engineer (until 2014). He joined Williams in 2015 as Felipe Massa's Race Engineer, was promoted to Chief Engineer in 2018, became Head of Vehicle Performance in 2019, and was promoted to Chief Engineer in 2024.
Head of the vehicle performance and trackside performance chain.