Guillaume Rocquelin
Guillaume Roquelin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  French |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Employer | Red Bull Racing |
| Known for | Formula One engineer |
| Title | Head of Race Engineering |
Guillaume Roquelin is a French Formula One engineer. He is currently the head of race engineering at the Red Bull Racing Formula One team.[1]
Career
Guillaume or “Rocky” as he is generally referred to at Red Bull, studied engineering at the Grenoble Institute of Technology. He began his motorsport career in America, working as a trackside engineer in CART / IndyCar racing for PacWest with Mark Blundell and then later at Newman-Haas.[2]
Rocquelin then moved to Red Bull Racing in Formula One starting out as David Coulthard's race engineer until 2008. From 2009-2014, he served as Sebastian Vettel's race engineer being instrumental in his four consecutive world championships from 2010-2013. In 2015, he was promoted to Head of Race Engineering.[3][4]
Rocquelin’s current role consists of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend. He works very closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the Red Bull garage and the performance groups back in the factory to ensure that both cars benefit from the best available information at a race weekend.[5]
References
- ^ "Rocky V". Red Bull Racing.
- ^ "Class of 2013 – Who are the Race Engineers at Ferrari and Red Bull". jobinf1.com.
- ^ "Vettel's race engineer handed promotion by Red Bull". F1.com.
- ^ "New 2015 race engineer for Sebastian Vettel after promotion for Guillaume Rocquelin". Sky Sports.
- ^ "Tell us more about your job at Red Bull, Rocky". f1i.
