Entry route
Engineering degree, trackside years in F3/F2/GP2 or endurance racing, then into an F1 team (or promoted internally).
Highlights
Race engineer for Lando Norris throughout Norris's F1 career, from 2019 debut onward
Worked trackside with Lewis Hamilton (as performance engineer) and was lead race engineer for Fernando Alonso
Promoted to McLaren's Director of Race Engineering in 2024 while retaining the Norris race-engineer seat
Cambridge aerospace/aerothermal engineering graduate who rose entirely through the McLaren ranks
Research notes
2026 pairing with Lando Norris confirmed by RacingNews365 2026 roundup. Education (Cambridge, MEng Aerothermal/Aerospace) confirmed by Wikipedia and EssentiallySports. Career ladder (joined McLaren 2006 as design engineer, through build/simulator/performance roles, to race engineer) confirmed across all three sources. Minor discrepancy on when he took the Alonso race-engineer seat: Wikipedia says lead race engineer from Oct 2017;
RacingNews365 frames it as Alonso's race engineer in 2018 — both agree he moved to Norris in 2019. f1_debut_year set to 2006 (first F1 industry/McLaren role). years_to_race_engineer = ~11 (2006 entry to ~2017 first race-engineer seat with Alonso;
would be ~6 if counting his 2011-12 transition to trackside). No radio nickname found in sources.