Mark Ellis | |
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Born | 22 June 1964 (1964-06-22) (age 60) |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | British |
Occupation | Engineer |
Known for | Formula One engineer |
Mark Ellis (born 22 June 1964) is a British Formula One engineer. He was most recently the performance director at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One team.
Ellis studied mechanical engineering at the University of Southampton before joining Ricardo Consulting Engineers as an engine development engineer.
Ellis' motorsport career began in 1988, achieving success with numerous teams in various categories, in positions ranging from leading the development of Super Touring cars to WRC 4WD transmissions. He gained prominence by participating in the Williams team's program for the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), when he worked with Williams Renault Dealer Racing on the 1995 touring car project, the Renault Laguna, who dominated the 1997 season with Alain Menu at the wheel and, in 2000, he and Menu were together again at Prodrive, champions of the World Rally Championship, where Ellis designed the Ford Mondeo that Menu drove to the last BTCC championship before the series went through a radical regulation change.
He ended up switching to Formula 1 in 2000, with British American Racing (BAR) as head of mechanical design. Ellis was already a close collaborator with the team's technical director, Malcolm Oastler, since the beginning of BAR, he joined BAR, that year, from Prodrive to occupy the position of chief mechanical designer. After a short stint at British American Racing in 2001, just before the San Marino Grand Prix, he moved to Jaguar Racing as its chief race engineer.
On 1 June 2002 it was announced that BAR's new chief of staff, David Richards, decided to bring Ellis back to his team and that the Brit would take up the position of head of vehicle performance at BAR. Ellis remained at Brackley as the team transitioned into Honda.
Ellis then took on a new challenge at Red Bull Racing as the chief vehicle performance engineer, a position he held until the end of the 2013 season, winning the constructors and drivers titles from 2010 to 2013 with the Austrian outfit.
In December 2013, Mercedes announced the hiring of Mark Ellis where he would assume the position of performance director, returning to Brackley in June 2014. With Mercedes, Ellis added five more consecutive constructors and drivers titles (2014–2018) to his already impressive resume.
In July 2018, it was announced that Mark Ellis would step down from Mercedes, and take a sabbatical while Loïc Serra would replace him as performance director.
Red Bull Racing | |
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Founder Dietrich Mateschitz Advisor to Red Bull GmbH Helmut Marko Team principal Christian Horner Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey Personnel Hugh Bird Ben Hodgkinson Gianpiero Lambiase Paul Monaghan Simon Rennie Guillaume Rocquelin Hannah Schmitz Pierre Waché Ben Waterhouse Jonathan Wheatley Former personnel Rob Marshall Ben Agathangelou Mark Ellis Dan Fallows Mark Gallagher Mark Gillan Andrew Green Neil Martin Ciaron Pilbeam Peter Prodromou Mark Smith Guenther Steiner Dave Stubbs Rob Taylor Gavin Ward Geoff Willis Current race drivers 1. Max Verstappen 11. Sergio Pérez 2024 Reserve drivers Liam Lawson Sébastien Buemi Jake Dennis World champion(s) Sebastian Vettel Max Verstappen Drivers' titles 2010 2011 2012 2013 2021 2022 2023 Constructors' titles 2010 2011 2012 2013 2022 2023 Sister team RB Formula One Team Red Bull Junior Team Enzo Deligny James Egozi Oliver Goethe Isack Hadjar Ayumu Iwasa Arvid Lindblad Pepe Martí Enzo Tarnvanichkul Tim Tramnitz Formula One cars RB1 RB2 RB3 RB4 RB5 RB6 RB7 RB8 RB9 RB10 RB11 RB12 RB13 RB14 RB15 RB16 RB16B RB18 RB19 RB20 Concept cars X2010/X2011/X2014/X2019 Related Red Bull Powertrains Red Bull GmbH |
Honda in Formula One | |
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Notable personnel (2015-2021) Yasuhisa Arai Yasuaki Asaki Yusuke Hasegawa Toyoharu Tanabe Masashi Yamamoto (2000-2008) Mariano Alperin Loïc Bigois Ross Brawn Jock Clear Gil de Ferran Jacky Eeckelaert Mark Ellis Nick Fry Takeo Fukui Takeo Kiuchi Simon Lacey Ron Meadows Shuhei Nakamoto John Owen Nicolò Petrucci Andrew Shovlin Otmar Szafnauer James Vowles Yasuhiro Wada Graham Watson Geoff Willis Craig Wilson Ian Wright Jörg Zander (1998-1999) Ben Agathangelou Tim Densham Harvey Postlethwaite Jos Verstappen (1983-1992) Osamu Goto Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshitoshi Sakurai (1964-1968) Soichiro Honda Shoichiro Irimajiri Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshio Nakamura Notable drivers Rubens Barrichello Ronnie Bucknum Jenson Button Richie Ginther Jo Schlesser John Surtees Cars RA270 RA271 RA272 RA273 RA300 RA301 RA302 RC100 RA099 RA106 RA107 RA108 RA109K | |
As an engine manufacturer World Champions Nelson Piquet Ayrton Senna Alain Prost Max Verstappen Constructors' titles 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Drivers' titles 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 2021 |
Jaguar Racing | ||
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British American Racing | |
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Founder Craig Pollock Former Staff Mariano Alperin Jock Clear Gil de Ferran Mark Ellis Nick Fry Luca Furbatto Andrew Green Ayao Komatsu Simon Lacey Ron Meadows Malcolm Oastler Adrian Reynard David Richards Andrew Shovlin Otmar Szafnauer Willem Toet James Vowles Graham Watson Geoff Willis Craig Wilson Ian Wright Jörg Zander Drivers Jacques Villeneuve Jenson Button Takuma Sato Olivier Panis Ricardo Zonta Mika Salo Anthony Davidson Formula One cars 01 002 003 004 005 006 007 |