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FIA Formula 2 official team page Team Members section publicly listed. A Melbourne-born veteran race engineer, RMIT Mechanical Engineering graduate. He began as a data engineer in Australian Formula Holden and V8 Supercars, moved through NASCAR consultancy, Jordan F1, and Epsilon Euskadi, then served as BMW Sauber F1 Performance Engineer (Kubica/Vettel) from 2006-09, later Red Bull simulation engineer and Daniel Ricciardo's race engineer at Toro Rosso. From 2014-19 he was Chief Race Engineer on the Porsche LMP1 programme, winning Le Mans and the WEC championship three times and leading the record-breaking 919 Evo project. Since 2025 he has been CEO and Team Principal of PREMA Racing. PREMA's official LinkedIn post, the team's About Us page, and the FIA F2 2026 PREMA team page all list Stephen Mitas as Team Principal & CEO. A WhichCar/MOTOR in-depth feature interview details his full engineering career from Australia to the Porsche 919;
person match confirmed.