Pat Symonds - Non-Executive Director12 Dec 2023 13:09
Don't forget that we have one of the F1 legend Patrick (Pat) Symonds, Independent Non-Executive Director.
Mr Symonds has had a 40+ year career in motorsport. He started his career designing championship winning cars for the lower formulae and then joined the fledgling Toleman F1 team working with Ayrton Senna. His subsequent partnerships with Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso produced 32 race wins, four Drivers’ World Championships and three Constructors’ World Championships. During this time he became Technical Director of the Benetton Formula One Team and latterly the Renault Formula One Team. After some years running his engineering consultancy, Neutrino Dynamics, he accepted an offer to become CTO at the Williams F1 team, a position he held until the end of the 2016 season. Mr Symonds is now Chief Technical Officer at F1 (Formula One Management) tasked with setting up a small technical group to assist the FIA in the formulation of future F1 and is involved in the transition of F1 to a low carbon economy. Mr Symonds is also a visiting professor at Cranfield University, a chartered engineer and a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society.