McLaren has introduced the appointment Pink Bull’s Chief Engineering Officer, Rob Marshall as its new Technical Director, Engineering & Design.
The position will sit throughout the F1 Technical Government staff, alongside Peter Prodromou and David Sanchez, reporting on to Group Principal Andrea Stella.
Marshall, who will be a part of the Woking staff on 1 January 2024. will likely be supported by Neil Houldey within the newly created position of Deputy Technical Director, Engineering & Design, to finish the senior technical construction. Rob and Neil will collaborate to evaluate and set up the very best technical requirements, required to design profitable F1 vehicles, stated the Woking outfit.
Marshall joins McLaren after 17 years with Pink Bull, most notably as Chief Engineering Officer. His appointment is likely one of the elementary steps taken by the staff to underpin their journey in direction of the entrance of the grid.
“I’m extremely happy that Rob will likely be becoming a member of McLaren,” stated Andrea Stella. “With over 25 years working in motorsport, Rob involves us with a wealth of experience and expertise, elevated by his tenure and monitor document at Pink Bull Racing. Rob’s appointment is likely one of the elementary steps and a pure match to help the staff’s journey to get again to our profitable methods.
“We’re a staff with the ambition of combating for championships, however over the past couple of seasons now we have not proven a gradual upward development from an on-track competitiveness viewpoint. Over the previous few months, now we have labored in direction of inverting this development. The strategy now we have adopted is complete and is predicated on strengthening the Group from a folks and experience viewpoint, together with the continued initiatives to improve know-how and infrastructure that can shortly come to fruition.
“Folks and tradition are our most necessary useful resource. We now have lately invested and labored in direction of growing and empowering the interior abilities obtainable at McLaren, and we already understand and measure the optimistic affect. In parallel, now we have been strengthening our roster by bringing new abilities on board. The record was already robust and inspiring, and the addition of a high-end and expert particular person like Rob will additional consolidate our means to ascertain the very best technical requirements at McLaren and be in situation to design profitable F1 vehicles.
“We sit up for welcoming Rob within the close to future.”
Marshall will step again from his present position with rapid impact, stated Pink Bull, of the British engineer who joined the staff from Renault whom he helped to the 2005 drivers’ and constructors’ title.
Following important regulation modifications in F1, Rob’s work on the RB5 helped the staff to its first grand prix victories in 2009, stated the Austrian outfit. Constructing on that platform, he performed a key position in what proved to be a exceptional interval of dominance for the younger staff because it received 4 consecutive Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship doubles between 2010 and 2013.
In 2016 after a decade as Chief Designer, Marshall took a wider position throughout the group with the newly created place of Chief Engineering Officer. The brand new remit, which most lately included Pink Bull Powertains, helped return the staff to race-winning competitiveness following the 2014 introduction of hybrid energy to the game.
Paying tribute to his time on the Group, Christian Horner stated: “We want to thank Rob for every little thing he has carried out for the Group over the previous 17 years. His work on the technology of vehicles that gave us 4 unimaginable championship doubles between 2010 and 2013 was actually excellent. Within the years since he has continued to be a key determine on the Group and in 2016 took on the broader position of Chief Engineering Officer which has seen him concerned in different initiatives throughout the enterprise. His affect will likely be missed however as soon as once more we thank him for all he has carried out and need him the easiest in his new position.”
