Andrew Shovlin
Andrew Shovlin on the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix podium.
Born (1973-11-01) 1 November 1973[1]
NationalityUnited Kingdom British
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationEngineer
EmployerMercedes-AMG Petronas F1
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleTrackside engineering director

Andrew Shovlin (born 1 November 1973) is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the trackside engineering director at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team.[2]

Career

Shovlin graduated from Leeds University in 1998, after completing a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a PhD in Vehicle Dynamics and Control.[3] Shovlin started his career with BAR in 1999. In 2004-2009 Shovlin worked for BAR, and later Honda and Brawn GP as race engineer to Jenson Button. In 2010, he was appointed as race engineer for Michael Schumacher at Mercedes GP. He was promoted to the position of track engineering director in 2011, a position he has retained to this day.[4] Shovlin's current role consists of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend. He works very closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the Mercedes garage and the performance groups back in Brackley to ensure that both cars benefit from the best available information at a race weekend.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Andrew Shovlin: 2021 Net Worth, Salary, and Endorsements".
  2. ↑ "F1 Insight: Engineering the win with Silver Arrows and Andrew Shovlin". Monster Energy.
  3. ↑ "Andrew Shovlin Biography". Leeds University.
  4. ↑ "Mercedes' Andrew Shovlin: "The amount of effort it takes to win a championship is huge"". thecheckeredflag.co.uk. 6 November 2019.
  5. ↑ "Insight the track engineers". Mercedes AMG F1.
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