Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Freelance Race Engineer with trackside experience from working throughout Europe, USA, Middle East and Asia with endurance and sprint racing outfits. Education includes a First Class Honours Degree in BEng Motorsport Engineering from Oxford Brookes University which involved a 15 month industrial placement in the Race Clutch design department at AP Racing. DM to request CV. * 🏆 IMSA GTDPRO 2024 🏆 IMSA GTD Endurance Cup 2022 🏆 GTWC Gold Cup 2022 🏆 ALMS GT 2022 🏆 GT Open ProAm 2021 🏆 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe ProAm 2019 🏆 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia ProAm 2018 * Series experience include: IMSA, WEC (incl Le Mans), GTWC, ALMS, IGTC, GTWC-America, GT Open, BTCC, ELMS (LMP3), British GT (GT3), Lamborghini Super Trofeo (Asia, Europe), 24H Series (SPX, GT4, TCR), TCR (Europe, UK), Belcar (GT), Time Attack, SEAT Leon Eurocup + various club racing and historic categories. ** Roles undertaken include: race engineer, performance/data/strategy engineer, driver coach, mechanic & tyre tech.
2025 - IMSA GTDPro (Porsche 911 GT3R R23). Laurin Heinrich, Klaus Bachler, Alessio Picariello. Sebring 12HR winners. - IMSA GTD (Porsche 911 GT3R R23). One-off Long Beach entry for Jonny Edger & Laurens Vanthoor - P1. 2024 - IMSA GTDPro Champions (Porsche 911 GT3R R23)- 3x wins, 3x poles. Laurin Heinrich, Seb Priaulx, Michael Christensen, Julien Andlauer, Klaus Bachler. - Le Mans 24hr (LMP2 P/A) - P2. Louis Deletraz, Alex Quinn, PJ Hyett.
Services include; - Race Engineer - Strategy Engineer - Performance Engineer - Data Engineer ▪ Advanced use of data acquisition systems (AiM, Pi, MoTec, Wintax) to analyse vehicle and driver performance. Includes maintenance of sensors, math channels and external analysis/reports (Excel, Matlab etc.). ▪ Vehicle dynamics background with experience in Touring Cars, LM Prototypes and GT cars. ▪ Strategy and car management during both sprint and endurance events, including in-depth run plans (team & driver facing), tyre and race strategy whilst managing drivers and delegating roles. In-depth use of Excel and VB to create live spreadsheets computing fuel burn and strategy simulation alongside use of HH Timing software. ▪ Driver coaching both trackside and in driver-in-the-loop simulators with career and gentlemen drivers through knowledge and background in driver technique and influence on vehicle dynamics. Pre and post event reports (team & driver facing) spawned from data, sector and video analysis.
2023; Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 Evo - IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship (GTD); 3x podiums +Akin Trophy Winners. - Spa 24hr (Bronze Cup). Optimum Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 Evo - British GT (GT3); 3x podiums. 2022; Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3 - ALMS; GT Champions. - IMSA Endurance Cup; GTD Champions. - GTWC Endurance; Gold Cup Champions. Project 1 with Inception Racing Porsche RSR GTE - WEC (GTE-AM); 2x Podiums. 2021; Inception Racing Mclaren 720S GT3 - GTWC Endurance - IGTC - GTWC America (part-season) - GT Open Pro-Am Champions - IMSA (Petit Le Mans) - British GT (Silverstone 500) Kessel Racing by Optimum Motorsport Ferrari 488 GTE - WEC (GTE-AM); Monza 6hr & Le Mans 24hr. Optimum Motorsport McLaren 570S GT4 - Gulf 12hr Bahrain
Lead Race Engineer managing trackside and workshop activities of 1 customer McLaren 720S GT3 and 6 customer McLaren 570S GT4 cars. Work includes creating all customer performance and car report templates, logging mileage, creating workshop and trackside based servicing routines and documentation alongside ensuring the cars are delivered to the high visual and performance standards of the Greystone brand.
2020 BTCC Lead Race Engineer - Trade Price Cars Racing Audi S3's of James Gornall & Bobby Thompson. 2019 BTCC Race Engineer - #8 HP Intel Trade Price Cars Racing Audi S3 of ex-F1 driver and Le Mans & Indycar race winner Mark Blundell.