Geoff Willis

Geoffrey " Geoff " Willis ( born December 23, 1959) is a British motorsport aerodynamics.

Life

Willis worked first for Honda and was in the early 1990s, an advisor to the team Leyton House, which had taken over the failed comeback attempt for a traditional racing team March. During his tenure at Leyton House he met Adrian Newey, who was already involved in Williams, became chief aerodynamicist of the Williams F1 team and worked as a consultant to the team. Next to Gavin Fisher - - As 1996 Newey moved to rival McLaren, Willis has been proposed as his successor.

In 2001, Geoff Willis to the team British American Racing, which passed into the possession of Honda in 2005. Willis ' status within the team was unclear, as on 22 June 2006 Shuhei Nakamoto has taken the position as chief technical director. Willis was prescribed not to come to the race and to focus exclusively on aerodynamics. The latter was contrary to the appointment of Mariano Alperin - Bruvera as head of aerodynamics group, which used Honda's new wind tunnel. Willis eventually left the team in the same year.

On 17 July 2007 he was engaged as Red Bull Racing 's technical director, once again Adrian Newey. He worked there until July 2009., From March 2010 until the summer of 2011 he was Technical Advisor to the Hispania Racing F1 Team. Since October 2011, he worked for Mercedes Grand Prix.