Entry route
Joined an F1 team directly as a data/systems engineer and climbed data → performance → race engineer.
Highlights
Long-serving Red Bull engineer (with the team since ~2012/2013, 13+ years)
Rose from a strategy industrial placement and analyst role into the trackside race-engineer seat
As Sergio Perez's performance engineer (2021-2024), contributed to Perez's race wins and his runner-up finish in the 2023 World Drivers' Championship
Deputised as Perez's race engineer during 2024
Stepped into full-time trackside Race Engineer role in 2025 (Lawson, then Tsunoda)
Assigned to Isack Hadjar for Hadjar's first full F1 campaign with Red Bull in 2026; began working together at the December 2025 Abu Dhabi post-season test
Research notes
Pairing with Hadjar for 2026 is confirmed (not rumoured): reported by AutoHebdo, RacingNews365 and Motor Sport Magazine 2026 race-engineer roundups, with the duo already working together at the December 2025 Abu Dhabi test. CV detail (Strathclyde MEng 2007-2012, Red Bull placement ~2012, analyst 2013, race support 2016, performance engineer 2021, full RE 2025) drawn from Wikipedia and the official Red Bull Racing team page;
LinkedIn corroborates the Red Bull Technology / performance engineer roles. Birth year and exact hometown not firmly disclosed (one source cites Peterborough). f1_debut_year set to 2013 (first permanent analyst role) - if counting the earlier industrial placement (~2012) it would be one year earlier;
years_to_race_engineer (~12) measured to his first full trackside RE season in 2025. No publicly known radio nickname.