Entry route
Joined an F1 team directly as a data/systems engineer and climbed data → performance → race engineer.
Highlights
Performance engineer for Jenson Button's 2009 Drivers' World Championship at Brawn GP
Lewis Hamilton's race engineer 2013-2024: six Drivers' World Championships together (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) and the most successful driver-engineer partnership in F1 history (~83 wins)
Stayed at Mercedes when Hamilton moved to Ferrari for 2025; paired with rookie Kimi Antonelli
Promoted to Head of Race Engineering / Head of Trackside Performance at Mercedes alongside the Antonelli race-engineer seat
Famous calm radio style and 'Hammer time' radio call with Hamilton
Research notes
2026 pairing with Andrea Kimi Antonelli confirmed by multiple independent sources (RacingNews365, GPblog, Formula1.com);
also titled Head of Race Engineering / Head of Trackside Performance. Started in F1 as a data engineer at Jordan in 2004, became a race engineer in September 2011 with Schumacher (~7 years), so years_to_race_engineer=7. Born 12 Feb 1975, British. Education not publicly documented (left empty per no-fabrication rule). Title count: six Drivers' Championships as Hamilton's race engineer (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), verified against Hamilton's Wikipedia record;
he was briefly absent for medical reasons (2019 Mexican GP, 2022 Austrian GP) when Dudley deputised. Some outlets phrase it as 'six titles between 2013 and 2024'.