Entry route
Engineering degree, trackside years in F3/F2/GP2 or endurance racing, then into an F1 team (or promoted internally).
Highlights
Engineered Esteban Ocon to his maiden F1 victory at the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix
Came up through GP2/F2 (iSport) before F1, then progressed performance-engineer-to-race-engineer at Renault/Alpine
Promoted to full race engineer when Renault rebranded to Alpine in 2021
Moved from Ocon's side to Pierre Gasly's garage for 2025, continuing into 2026
Research notes
2026 pairing with Pierre Gasly confirmed by RacingNews365 and PlanetF1 2026 race-engineer lists. IMPORTANT correction to the task's starting hint: Gasly's race engineer is NOT Karel Loos. Loos was Gasly's RE in 2023 but was promoted to Head/Deputy of Trackside Engineering for 2024 and no longer engineers a car;
Josh Peckett took over Gasly's car from 2025. The years_to_race_engineer value (2) is approximate: Peckett joined F1 with Marussia in 2013 and was named race engineer to Will Stevens in 2015. Exact start/end of the iSport GP2 stint not precisely sourced (left 'from' empty). No radio nickname found in public sources.