Ron Meadows

Ron Meadows
Ron Meadows on the 2014 Chinese Grand Prix podium.
Born	(1964-02-07) 7 February 1964 (age 60)
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Mechanic
Employer	Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport
Known for	Formula One team manager
Title	Sporting director

Ron Meadows (born 7 February 1964)^[1] is a British Formula One mechanic and team manager. He is currently the sporting director at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One team.^[2]

Career

Meadows started his career in motorsport as a mechanic in his early teens and worked his way through the ranks to running his own Formula 3000 squad. After several years as a team boss, Meadows moved to the US to work for Walker Racing in the Indy Car series.^[3] Meadows later joined Adrian Reynard's fledging British American Racing team as their factory manager.^[4] After the Brackley-based team struggled during their maiden season, Meadows was promoted to team manager and remained with them as they became Honda Racing, and then took on the sporting director role in 2008. In 2009, he helped Brawn GP take their one and only World Championship^{[citation needed]}, and remained in the same sporting director position as the champions were bought out by Mercedes winning 8 constructors and 7 drivers titles with the team. In his current role Meadows is responsible for managing garage operations and is the lead figure on the Mercedes pit wall.^[5] He also represents the team in discussions with the FIA and the Sporting Working Group and directly communicates with race control during the race weekend.^[6]

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Mercedes-Benz in Formula One

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport (2010–present)

Ownership Mercedes-Benz Group (33.3%) Toto Wolff (33.3%) Ineos (33.3%) Executive management Toto Wolff (CEO & team principal) Ola Källenius (Head of Mercedes-Benz) Current personnel James Allison Peter Bonnington Simon Cole Jérôme d'Ambrosio Mike Elliott Ron Meadows Jarrod Murphy John Owen Markus Schäfer [de] Britta Seeger Loïc Serra Andrew Shovlin Hywel Thomas [ja] Geoff Willis Former personnel Bob Bell Loïc Bigois Eric Blandin Ross Brawn Aldo Costa Andy Cowell Jock Clear Mark Ellis Nick Fry Thomas Fuhr Norbert Haug Ben Hodgkinson [ja] Jürgen Hubbert Niki Lauda Paddy Lowe Tony Ross Wolfgang Schattling Mark Slade James Vowles Craig Wilson [ja] Thomas Weber Ian Wright Dieter Zetsche Current race drivers 44. Lewis Hamilton 63. George Russell 2023 Test and reserve drivers 47. Mick Schumacher Simulator drivers Jake Hughes Anthony Davidson Junior Team drivers Frederik Vesti Paul Aron Andrea Kimi Antonelli Alex Powell Yuanpu Cui World Champions Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg Ambassadors Nico Rosberg Esteban Gutiérrez Susie Wolff Notable drivers   Valtteri Bottas   Michael Schumacher Drivers' titles 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Constructors' titles 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Formula One cars W01 W02 W03 W04 W05 W06 W07 W08 W09 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 Engine division Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Related Mercedes-Benz Group Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG

Daimler-Benz (1954–1955)
Personnel Fritz Nallinger Alfred Neubauer Max Sailer Rudolf Uhlenhaut World Champions Juan Manuel Fangio Notable drivers   Hans Herrmann   Karl Kling   Hermann Lang   Stirling Moss   André Simon   Piero Taruffi Drivers' titles 1954 1955 Formula One cars W196 Related Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows

Success with Mercedes-Benz engines
Drivers' titles 1954 1955 1998 1999 2008 2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Constructors' titles 1998 2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Related Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Mercedes engine customers' Grand Prix results Mercedes-AMG Italics indicate factory team.