Neil Oatley
British motor racing engineer (born 1954)
Neil Oatley | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1954-06-12) 12 June 1954 (age 69) |
| Nationality |  British |
Neil Oatley (born 12 June 1954) is a British design and development director in Formula One teams.
Career
Born in Britain, Oatley graduated from Loughborough University in 1976 with an automotive engineering degree. He worked briefly outside motor racing before joining the Williams team in 1977. There he became one of many young engineers to have worked alongside Patrick Head early in their careers before moving on to other organisations. Oatley worked as a draughtsman before becoming a race engineer for both Clay Regazzoni and Carlos Reutemann.
In 1984 Oatley was recruited by Carl Haas to work on the FORCE F1 project, but the results were poor, and the team withdrew from Formula One in 1986.
Oatley joined the McLaren team shortly after leaving FORCE and worked alongside John Barnard in the design office. After Gordon Murray replaced Barnard as technical director, Oatley was put in charge of the design of the naturally aspirated car for 1989—Steve Nichols having been appointed chief designer of the 1988 chassis—and remained chief designer after Murray moved to the new McLaren road car project. His cars secured titles in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998 and 1999.
Oatley continued to work as chief designer at McLaren until 2003, when he became executive director of engineering.
References
- Profile at grandprix.com
- v
- t
- e
Williams Grand Prix Engineering- Frank Williams
- Patrick Head
- Jenson Button (Senior Advisor)
- Sven Smeets
- Willy Rampf
- Ross Brawn
- Loïc Bigois
- Jost Capito
- Jock Clear
- Mike Coughlan
- François-Xavier Demaison
- Frank Dernie
- Dirk de Beer
- Jonathan Eddolls
- Gavin Fisher
- Mark Gillan [ja]
- Eghbal Hamidy
- Patrick Head
- Simon Lacey
- Werner Laurenz
- Paddy Lowe
- Tom McCullough
- John McQuilliam
- Sam Michael
- Matt Morris
- Rod Nelson
- Adrian Newey
- Steve Nielsen
- Tim Newton
- Neil Oatley
- Adam Parr
- Heinz Paschen
- Tim Preston
- Xevi Pujolar
- Sergio Rinland
- Simon Roberts
- Paul Rosche
- Enrique Scalabroni
- Rob Smedley
- Jason Somerville
- Dickie Stanford
- Dave Stubbs
- Pat Symonds
- Antonia Terzi
- Jon Tomlinson
- Claire Williams
- Frank Williams
- Geoff Willis
- Craig Wilson [ja]
- Toto Wolff
- Ed Wood
- Jörg Zander
- 2.
Logan Sargeant - 23.
Alexander Albon
See category
- JPH1
- JPH1B
