Luca Furbatto

Luca Furbatto is an Italian Formula One engineer. He is currently the chief designer at the Alfa Romeo Formula One team.[1]

Luca Furbatto
Nationality	Italian
Citizenship	Italian
Occupation	Engineer
Employer	Alfa Romeo F1
Known for	Formula One Engineer
Title	Chief Designer

Biography

After working through his engineering qualifications in Italy and Leeds in the UK, Furbatto started work for the BAR team as an assistant engineer. He started working with the test team and then moved over to the race squad, before departing in the year 2000 for Toyota Motorsport.[2]

In 2001, he moved to McLaren Racing, where he worked as Head of Materials, growing the department exponentially and working on race winning machinery. He was promoted to project manager where he played a crucial role in the design of the 2010 and 2011 McLaren car’s under the supervision of Paddy Lowe, before departing the team at the end of 2011 for Toro Rosso.[3]

At Toro Rosso Furbatto took up the position of Chief Designer, where he remained for three years. After a brief stint back with McLaren working on their GT series entries,[4][5] he was back as a Chief Designer for the Manor Team. He joined during the 2015 reshuffle and took responsibility for the 2016 designs.[6] It was a better year for the squad, but unfortunately money troubles continued to plague Manor and they folded ahead of the 2017 season. In June 2017 he joined Sauber Motorsport to become the design chief at the Swiss outfit where he has remained to this day.[1]

References

1. "Sauber Formula 1 team signs new technical personnel". Autosport.
2. "Luca Furbatto Formula 1 employee". Side Podcast.
3. "Toro Rosso strengthens technical team with Jon Tomlinson and Luca Furbatto". Autosport.
4. "Furbatto to join Stella at McLaren". F1 Fansite.
5. "Furbatto to join Stella at McLaren - report". Motorsport.com.
6. "Bob Bell joins Manor as part of 'ambitious plan'". Crash.net.