Jonathan Eddolls
Born (1981-02-01) 1 February 1981 (age 43)
United Kingdom
OccupationEngineer
EmployerScuderia AlphaTauri
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleHead of trackside engineering

Jonathan Eddolls (born 1 February 1981)[1] is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the head of trackside engineering at the Scuderia AlphaTauri Formula One team.[2]

Career

Eddolls studied mechanical engineering at university, before landing a summer internship at Williams Racing. Eddolls greatly impressed the Grove outfit, so was offered a full time position as a graduate engineer where he rotated between departments.[3] Eventually Eddolls focused on data and performance engineering becoming Rubens Barrichello's data engineer for 2010-2011 and then provided the same role to Bruno Senna.[4] In 2013 he was promoted to race engineer to Valtteri Bottas and although their first season was disappointing, they proved to be a great team from 2014 to 2016 as Bottas recorded multiple podiums and finished in the top six in both 2014 and 2015.[5] In 2017 Eddolls left Williams for Toro Rosso to seek a new challenge as head of trackside engineering, a position he holds today as the team as evolved into Scuderia AlphaTauri.[6] His current role consists of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend; working closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the AlphaTauri garage and the performance groups back in Faenza.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Jonathan Eddolls". WilliamsF1.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Meet Jonathan Eddolls". Scuderia AlphaTauri.
  3. ^ "Formula 1 experts at work - Jonathan Eddolls, Williams F1 Data engineer". Williams F1.
  4. ^ "Williams F1 announce new race engineer line-up". Oxford Mail.
  5. ^ "A chat with Valtteri Bottas' race engineer Jonathan Eddolls". Randstead.
  6. ^ "Eddolls: Toro Rosso had an 'eventful' Hungarian GP". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. 8 August 2019.
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