John Owen (Formula One)

John Owen is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the chief designer at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One team.[1]

John Owen
Born11 May 1973
Nationality British
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationEngineer
EmployerMercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport
Known forFormula One Engineer
TitleChief Designer

Biography

Owen started his career in motorsport in Brackley in 2001, working as an aerodynamicist for chassis manufacturer Reynard Motorsport. A year later, he moved to Hinwil, Switzerland, to work for the Sauber team. In 2004, he was promoted to a senior aerodynamicist for the Swiss outfit. Three years later, he returned to Brackley as principal aerodynamicist for Honda. In 2010 he was promoted to Chief Designer for the Mercedes works team.[2] He currently leads the engineering team at Mercedes.[3] Owen was integral to the creation of DAS (Dual Axis Steering).[4]

Career timeline
gollark: In fact, like lyricly!demote!establish!communism it's Turing-completer, or at least TuriExtended is.
gollark: It's provably Turing-complete via `t` and possibly `⎔`.
gollark: Like `§ Calculate the SHA256 digest of the program as a raw bytestring. Lossily convert it to UTF-8, discarding invalid parts. Interpret the resulting string as Turi source code like i does.`.
gollark: Turi has HEAVILY self-modifying instructions.
gollark: No, use Turi.

References
  1. "John Owen Biography". Mercedes F1 team.
  2. "Men behind Mercedes design team". F1i.
  3. "Mercedes announce technical shake up". F1 website.
  4. "How Mercedes created DAS". Road and Track.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.