Steve Nielsen

Steve Nielsen (born 2 July 1964) is a British engineer recruited by the Williams Formula One team for the 2015 season.

Formula One career

1980/1990s

Nielsen's introduction to Formula One came as a truck driver for a Formula One catering company.[1] In 1986, he joined Lotus' test team,[1] before running their Spares department. In 1991, he moved to Tyrrell in the same role before being appointed assistant team manager in 1994.[1] In the next five years he moved to Benetton, back to Tyrrell, to Honda, then Arrows, before moving back to Benetton, where he spent almost a decade as Sporting Director, including the team's transitions to Renault F1 and Lotus Renault GP.[1]

2010s

After spending 2012 as Sporting Director at Caterham, Nielsen joined Scuderia Toro Rosso at the start of the 2013 season.[2] On 15 December 2014, Williams announced that Nielsen had joined the team as Sporting Director.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Steve Nielsen". GrandPrix.com. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  2. "F1 : Caterham Formula 1 team sporting director Steve Nielsen moves over to STR". F1SA. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. "Steve Nielsen Appointed as Sporting Manager". Williams Martini Racing. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/16/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.