Ciaron Pilbeam

Ciaron Pilbeam
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Engineer
Employer	Alpine F1 Team
Known for	Formula One engineer
Title	Chief race engineer

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

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. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
2. "Tension inside Red-Bull F1 Team before the start of 2013 season". sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
3. "Renault names Ciaron Pilbeam chief race engineer". ESPN. 15 December 2016. Archived from the original on 5 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
4. ""We'll need to learn how high the degradation is" – Alpine's Ciaron Pilbeam". Nick Golding. July 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.