Ciaron Pilbeam

Ciaron Pilbeam is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the chief race engineer at the Alpine Formula One team.[1]

Ciaron Pilbeam
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationEngineer
EmployerAlpine F1 Team
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleChief race engineer

Career

Pilbeam first started at British American Racing working in Vehicle Dynamics. A year later, he worked closely with Jock Clear as Assistant Race Engineer to 1997 Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Pilbeam continued working with BAR as Race Engineer to Takuma Sato before moving to Red Bull Racing in 2006 with Christian Klien. In 2007, Pilbeam took on the role as Mark Webber's Race Engineer, keeping that position for six years.[1] He assisted nine race wins for the Australian and contributed to three constructor world championship titles.[2] He then joined Lotus F1 Team as Chief Race Engineer in 2013 and then joined McLaren the following year in an identical role.[3] By 2017, Pilbeam returned to Enstone as Chief Race Engineer, working closely with Sporting Director Alan Permane and the engineering team.[4]

References
  1. "Ciaron Pilbeam". Side Podcast.
  2. "Tension inside Red-Bull F1 Team before the start of 2013 season". sportskeeda.
  3. "Renault names Ciaron Pilbeam chief race engineer". ESPN. 15 December 2016.
  4. ""We'll need to learn how high the degradation is" – Alpine's Ciaron Pilbeam". Nick Golding. July 2021.
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