Your dream F1 tech team

[dren]

TD: Ken Anderson
TP: Peter Windsor
CD: Nick Worth
Driver: Jack Villeneuve

[wunderkind]

Team Principal: Martin Whitmarsh
Technical Director: Bob Bell
Director of Engineering: Pat Symonds
Commercial Director: Ekrem Sami
Head of Track Operations: Chris Dyer
Head of Aerodynamics: Peter Prodromou

And maybe Enrique Scalabroni as deputy to Pat Symonds

I picked Whitmarsh as TP because he is a good operator and he is good with politics and a much better people manager than Ron Dennis.

Bob Bell as TD because F1 cars are so aero driven these days that a good TP must have a good understanding of how aerodynamics influence the underlying design of the car. I picked Bell over Symonds purely because of this factor.

Pat Symonds as Director of Engineering because of his experience, track record, and previous relationship with Bob Bell at Renault (though he was Bob Bell's boss).

Ekrem Sami is probably THE most effective fundraiser in F1. No justification required.

Chris Dyer is a competent and effective operator at race weekends and his trackside engineering experience makes him an obvious candidate.

Peter Prodromou...........well I can't get Newey, can I? Prodromou is the next best thing.

Enrique Scalabroni is not a name that would come to mind in an instant. But his forte is design and packaging of mechanical components and I also like some Latin flair in the team's engineering ranks. If I have to get another Englishman, it would be Neil Oatley or Mike Coughlan.

[rjsa]

Nelson Piquet does tech design?

Piquet was a creative bastard...

[Lycoming]

are we sticking with people still alive? because if not, Colin Chapman would be my entire list.

[Moxie]

TD: Ken Anderson

TP: Peter Windsor

Surely you jest. The last time Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor tried to run an F1 team didn't turn out so well.

[astracrazy]

Team Principal: Ross Brawn

Technical Director: Adrian Newey

Chief Designer: Rory Byrne
Head of Aerodynamics: Peter Prodromou

Engineering director: Aldo Costa
Technology director: Geoff Willis
(both doing similar rolls as they currently do at merc)

[krisfx]

Team Principal: Ross Brawn

Technical Director: Adrian Newey

Chief Designer: Rory Byrne
Head of Aerodynamics: Peter Prodromou

Engineering director: Aldo Costa
Technology director: Geoff Willis
(both doing similar rolls as they currently do at merc)

I would sneak Gordon Murray into this lot too (no one said you can't have past engineers)

[xpensive]

Bob Bell, Geoff Willis, Aldo Costa and Paddy Lowe!

With Ross Brawn working the CNC-machine.

[Shrieker]

I used to play Grand Prix World years ago. Ahh, the good old days For some reason Harvey Postlethwaite in engineering and Mike Gascoyne in desing worked wonders for small teams(probably because they were the best bang for the buck). A proper remake would be so awesome...

[Steven]

Briatore, Allison, Newey, Marmorini . That should be enough.
Let them sort a team out and it'll win sooner rather than later.

[Kiril Varbanov]

Oh, nice thread.

I'll stay away from the obvious choice of Newey
Joking aside, Scarbs is #1 in my list as Technical Director with Simon McBeath as vice. Then we have:

Head of engineering - James Allison feat. James Key as vice.
Head of CFD - Patrick Henley
Chief Designer - Rory Byrne
Head of Aerodynamics - Peter Prodromou, complimented by myself
Large investment in aero - Stefano Sordo from Red Bull, along with Tommy Joseph, David Hutting, Paul van Veggel or maybe Dan Fallows.

[donskar]

I think an F1 "Dream Team" must, by definition, be one that can beat a Newey-led team. And we have a winner already in the books -- the Brawn-Byrne-Schu-Todt-Simon-etc team.

[xpensive]

The Old man, Mauro Forghieri and Jacky Ickx was my Dream team Don.