Xavier Marcos Padros

Xavier Marcos Padros is a Spanish Formula One engineer. He is currently the race engineer for Charles Leclerc at the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team.[1]

Xavier Marcos Padros
NationalitySpanish
CitizenshipSpanish
OccupationEngineer
EmployerScuderia Ferrari
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleRace engineer

Career

Marcos Padros started his career in motorsport as a race engineer for the BNC Racing Team. He got his first taste of Formula One while working for the fledging HRT team as performance engineer from 2010-12. After the team folded he joined Williams Racing as a performance engineer for Felipe Massa.[1] Seeking a new challenge Marcos Padros decided to move to America to become chief race engineer for the Nascar team Richard Childress Racing in 2015.[2] Marcos Padros returned to Formula One with Scuderia Ferrari, first as a factory based race engineer for 2018 and then became the race engineer for Charles Leclerc when he joined the team in 2019 remaining with the Monegasque ever since.[3]

References
  1. "A Rundown on Charles Leclerc's Often Criticized Ferrari F1 Race Engineer – Xavier Marcos Padros". essentiallysports.
  2. "The insider's guide to… The Pit Wall". F1.com.
  3. "Ferrari has adjusted Formula 1 team leadership structure". Autosport.
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