Peter Crolla

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Peter Crolla
Nationality British
CitizenshipBritish
Occupation Engineer
Employer Haas F1 Team
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleTrackside Operations Manager

Peter Crolla is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the trackside operations manager at the Haas Formula One team. [1]

Career

Crolla started his career in motorsport in 2004 as a data engineer for Team Dynamics which was competing in the British Touring Car Championship. After one year with the team he moved to Fortec Motorsport which competed in British Formula 3 International Series where he was a race engineer for two years and then became team manager from 2007 to 2010. [2] In 2011 he returned to Team Dynamics as team manager. He stayed there for three years, until Crolla joined McLaren Racing as garage team leader. [1] Seeking a new challenge, Crolla joined the fledging Haas team as race team co-ordinator and the team's 14th employee. He became team manager in September 2017 and is now the race team operations manager overseeing garage operations as well as sporting governance and liasing sporting matters with Michael Masi and the FIA. [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Peter Crolla". GP Racing.
  2. ↑ "Team Manager Peter Crolla after FP1 Silverstone". Honda Video. 6 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Factory Friday Employee Feature: Peter Crolla". Haas F1. 4 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Haas F1 Team". PitPass.
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