Charlie Whiting

Charlie Whiting ( born 1952 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is race director of the FIA ​​, safety officer and head of the technical department of the Formula 1 In this role, he also coordinates mainly the logistics of the Formula 1 race, inspected before each Grand Prix at the Parc fermé cars, enforces FIA rules and operates the signal conditioning that starts each race.

Career

In his first career, he assisted his brother Nick when preparing touring and rally cars near the Brands Hatch Circuit, a motor sports race track in England. Mid-1970s, the brothers worked at the Formula 1 Team Surtees for the Divina Galica racer. In the 1977 season Hesketh Racing Whiting joined. After the decline of the team he joined Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham Formula 1 team at Weybridge, where he remained for the next decade and since the success of Nelson Piquet, the 1981 and 1983 Formula 1 world champion, chief mechanic was. Later he was promoted to chief engineer, while his brother Nick opened a shop for motorsport parts near the Brands Hatch Circuit. Nick was murdered in 1990.

For season 1988 Whiting Technical representatives of the Formula 1 and 1997 was appointed race director and safety officer of the FIA.

United States Grand Prix 2005

During the Grand Prix of the USA in 2005 he was involved in a controversy that was as none of the tires that Michelin had brought to Indianapolis, safe to use. The French tire manufacturer was not able to produce new tires to replace the unsafe tire of its seven customers. They asked instead to erect a new chicane at turn 13 of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Whiting. He refused to do so on the grounds that it compared to the other teams is unfair, which are able to drive on the existing route safely.