This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Ian Wright" motorsport – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Ian Wright | |
---|---|
Nationality | British |
Ian Wright is a British engineer who has held positions in several Formula One teams.
Wright has worked for 30 years at the top level of motorsport complemented by 5 years in the aerospace industry.
In 1990, Wright became a part of McLaren team, where he played a pivotal role in vehicle performance simulation, toolset development for analysis, and competitor comparison. His contributions were instrumental in securing championships for McLaren in 1990 and 1991. Wright led the development of new analytical techniques that identified key vehicle performance development problems at McLaren in 1996 and 1997 and helped change the way vehicle performance was developed with the outcome of helping McLaren win the world championship in 1998.
Wright began working in Formula One in the late 1990s as an engineer for British American Racing, he remained with the team after it was acquired by Honda and renamed Honda Racing F1 Team in 2006 and then Brawn GP in 2009.
Wright became head of engineering software when Mercedes-Benz took control of the team. He left the Mercedes team in the summer of 2014 to take up a role outside of Formula 1 in the United States.
In early July 2017, it was announced that Sauber had hired Wright, who had already started working at the team as its new head of performance, as a new reinforcement for the remainder of the 2017 Formula 1 season. He remained with the team after it rebranded to Alfa Romeo Racing in 2019 as head of vehicle science.
British American Racing | |
---|---|
Founder Craig Pollock Former Staff Mariano Alperin Jock Clear Gil de Ferran Mark Ellis Nick Fry Luca Furbatto Andrew Green Ayao Komatsu Simon Lacey Ron Meadows Malcolm Oastler Adrian Reynard David Richards Andrew Shovlin Otmar Szafnauer Willem Toet James Vowles Graham Watson Geoff Willis Craig Wilson Ian Wright Jörg Zander Drivers Jacques Villeneuve Jenson Button Takuma Sato Olivier Panis Ricardo Zonta Mika Salo Anthony Davidson Formula One cars 01 002 003 004 005 006 007 |
Honda in Formula One | |
---|---|
Notable personnel (2015-2021) Yasuhisa Arai Yasuaki Asaki Yusuke Hasegawa Toyoharu Tanabe Masashi Yamamoto (2000-2008) Mariano Alperin Loïc Bigois Ross Brawn Jock Clear Gil de Ferran Jacky Eeckelaert Mark Ellis Nick Fry Takeo Fukui Takeo Kiuchi Simon Lacey Ron Meadows Shuhei Nakamoto John Owen Nicolò Petrucci Andrew Shovlin Otmar Szafnauer James Vowles Yasuhiro Wada Graham Watson Geoff Willis Craig Wilson Ian Wright Jörg Zander (1998-1999) Ben Agathangelou Tim Densham Harvey Postlethwaite Jos Verstappen (1983-1992) Osamu Goto Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshitoshi Sakurai (1964-1968) Soichiro Honda Shoichiro Irimajiri Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshio Nakamura Notable drivers Rubens Barrichello Ronnie Bucknum Jenson Button Richie Ginther Jo Schlesser John Surtees Cars RA270 RA271 RA272 RA273 RA300 RA301 RA302 RC100 RA099 RA106 RA107 RA108 RA109K | |
As an engine manufacturer World Champions Nelson Piquet Ayrton Senna Alain Prost Max Verstappen Constructors' titles 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Drivers' titles 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 2021 |
Brawn GP | |
---|---|
Founder Ross Brawn Personnel Phil Arnaboldi Loïc Bigois Peter Bonnington Jock Clear Simon Cole Russell Cooley Jacky Eeckelaert Nick Fry Ron Meadows John Owen Andrew Shovlin James Vowles Graham Watson Craig Wilson Ian Wright Jörg Zander World Champions Jenson Button Other driver Rubens Barrichello Drivers' titles 2009 Constructors' titles 2009 Formula One cars BGP 001 |
Mercedes-Benz in Formula One | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||
| |||||
|
Sauber F1 Team | |
---|---|
Founder | Peter Sauber |
Current |
|
2024 drivers | Valtteri Bottas Zhou Guanyu |
Notable personnel | Mariano Alperin Alessandro Alunni Bravi Ruth Buscombe Elliot Dason-Barber Dirk de Beer André de Cortanze Jost Capito Jacky Eeckelaert Luca Furbatto Eric Gandelin René Hilhorst Nicolas Hennel Monisha Kaltenborn James Key Mike Krack Jan Monchaux Matt Morris Seamus Mullarkey Steve Nichols Tom McCullough John Owen Xevi Pujolar Willy Rampf Leo Ress Simone Resta Sergio Rinland Andreas Seidl Loïc Serra Mark Smith Julien Simon-Chautemps Willem Toet Mario Theissen Frédéric Vasseur Pierre Waché Ben Waterhouse Max Welti Ian Wright Jörg Zander Beat Zehnder Christoph Zimmermann |
Notable drivers | Karl Wendlinger Heinz-Harald Frentzen Johnny Herbert Jean Alesi Nick Heidfeld Kimi Räikkönen Felipe Massa Giancarlo Fisichella Jacques Villeneuve Robert Kubica Sebastian Vettel Kamui Kobayashi Sergio Pérez Marcus Ericsson Charles Leclerc |
Former drivers | See category |
Sportscars | C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 SHS C6 C7 C8 C9 C11 C291 C292 |
Formula One cars | C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 F1.06 F1.07 F1.08 F1.09 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 Alfa Romeo title sponsorship C38 C39 C41 C42 C43 C44 |
Alfa Romeo in Formula One | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||
| |||||
|