Virgin Key Design staff - Who are they?

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Virgin Key Design staff - Who are they?

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Other than Nick Wirth are there any 'names' from the F1 fraternity working on the car?

Looking on this website http://forix.autosport.com/8w/6thgear/designers.html

Most Chassis have a few people working on them, Chief Designer and Senior and what not but for the Virgin cars only Wirth is listed, I can't believe this to be true (I assume they just like to keep quiet about who works for them) can anyone shed any light?

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Take a deeper look into Wirth Research I think.
Before I do anything I ask myself “Would an idiot do that?” And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing. - Dwight Schrute

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It seems a lot of Wirth staff are homegrown engineers from within the team before the F1 Project. The Virgin F1 deal seems to have brought in some new engineers, with a few from other teams. Electronics seem to have been drained from Renault, A lot of Design resource taken from the fallout from Brawn. A few significant others drawn from Red Bull and Ferrari.

Head of Suspension Design (ex Prodrive)
Head Of Electronics Gordon Pocock (Ex Renault)
Head of Composites Design (Wirth)
Head of Hydraulic Design (Ex Red Bull)
Head of Performance Software (Ex Renault)
Head of Analysis Tools (ex Digital Flow solutions)

Systems Design Engineer (Wirth)
Design Engineer (Ex Brawn)
Engineering Manager (Wirth)
Reliability Engineer (Wirth)
Aerodynamicst (Ex Brawn)
Design Engineer (Ex Ferrari)
CFD Engineer (was a Caprenter!)
Vehicle Dynamics Engineer (ex Nissan)
Software Engineer (Ex Brawn)
Electronics and Electrical installation (ex Renault)
Simulation Engineer (ex Multimatic)
Simulator Engineer (Ex Brawn)

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Paul
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scarbs wrote: CFD Engineer (was a Caprenter!)
Wow, a pro armchair aerodynamicist! =D>

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Paul wrote:
scarbs wrote: CFD Engineer (was a Caprenter!)
Wow, a pro armchair aerodynamicist! =D>
It was only a matter of time until someone said that :lol:


Thanks for the insight Scarbs. I like many was under the impression that most if not all were from Wirth research.