Williams appoints McKiernan as Chief Engineer
By Williams Martini Racing
February 20 2018
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Williams
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Williams Martini
Racing is pleased to announce that Doug McKiernan has today joined the
Formula One technical team as Chief Engineer.
In this new project-focused position, Doug will report to Chief Technical
Officer, Paddy Lowe and will work alongside his colleagues in the senior
technical team at Williams.
Doug began his Formula One career at McLaren in 1999 as an Aerodynamic
Analyst. Over his time at McLaren he progressed to Chief Aerodynamicist,
Head of Aerodynamics and finally Chief Engineer, before stepping down in
2015.
Chief Technical Officer, Paddy Lowe, commented: “Having worked with Doug
closely between 2007 and 2012, I am sure that his talent and experience will
significantly strengthen our team and we are delighted that he is joining
us. Since returning to Williams last year, it has become clear that in order
help move the team forward we need greater engineering resources. We have
already started to make excellent progress, with Dirk de Beer our Head of
Aerodynamics leading an invigorated aerodynamics team. The addition of Doug
to the senior team, supporting our Chief Designer Ed Wood and Dirk in
particular, will give us the breadth for more focus on technical strategy,
and the optimisation of car architecture across design and aerodynamics.”
Doug McKiernan added: “It is a pleasure to be joining Williams. The team has
exciting plans for the future, and it is great to see the work already being
done with the aerodynamic and engineering teams to produce the FW41, whilst
also looking ahead to future cars as Williams continues its charge to move
further forwards on the grid. The team already has a strong engineering
department, and I hope that I can further add to that to continue driving
forward the development of the FW41 and future cars.” |
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