Research notes
Demaison is a veteran racing technical director with a background in rallying, having held senior engineering roles at Peugeot, Subaru, Citroën and Volkswagen, and led development of the Volkswagen Polo R WRC that dominated the WRC. He served as technical director at Williams F1 from 2021 to 2022, joined Hyundai Motorsport in 2023, and now serves simultaneously as technical director of Hyundai's WRC programme and of Genesis Magma Racing.