Research notes
A veteran race engineer from Melbourne, a graduate of RMIT in mechanical engineering. He started out as a data engineer in Australia's Formula Holden and V8 Supercars, then worked as a NASCAR consultant, at Jordan F1, and at Epsilon Euskadi, before serving as a performance engineer at BMW Sauber F1 from 2006-09 (working with Kubica and Vettel), then moving to Red Bull as a simulation engineer and to Red Bull's junior team (Toro Rosso) as Ricciardo's race engineer;
from 2014-19 he was chief race engineer on Porsche's LMP1 program, winning Le Mans and the WEC title three times and spearheading the record-breaking 919 Evo project. Since 2025 he has served as CEO and Team Principal of PREMA. PREMA's official LinkedIn post, its official About Us page, and the FIA F2 2026 PREMA team page all list Stephen Mitas as Team Principal and CEO;
an in-depth WhichCar/MOTOR profile details his full engineering career from Australia to Porsche's 919, consistent with the same person.