John Alastair Iley (born 29 September 1967^[1]) is a British motor racing aerodynamicist, who was formerly the technical director for the Caterham F1 team.^[2]

Career

After graduating from Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, while studying at Imperial College, London, he worked on wind tunnel testing and data analysis of a sports prototypes.

Hired by Brun Technics on graduation, he worked on both the EuroBrun F1 team and the 1990 design of the Judd-powered Brun C91 sports car. In 1991 he was hired as aerodynamicist on the Allard J2X-C sports car, and subsequently worked on Indycar development for Newman-Haas, Lola Cars and Swift Engineering.^[3]

In 1995 he moved to Formula1 with Jordan Grand Prix as an aerodynamicist,^[3] becoming chief aerodynamicist in 1998. In 2002 he followed Mike Gascoyne to Renault F1, and then joined Ferrari in 2004 as chief aerodynamicist.

He joined McLaren Racing in 2010,^[3] but was placed on gardening leave in late 2011, ahead of his joining with Gascoyne again at Caterham F1 as performance director in 2012.^[3][4]

Following his career in F1, Iley is the Director of Iley Design.^[5]