Guillaume Rocquelin

Guillaume Roquelin (born 14 August 1974) is a French Formula One engineer. He is currently the head of race engineering at the Red Bull Racing Formula One team.[1]

Guillaume Roquelin
Born (1974-08-14) 14 August 1974
Dijon, France
Nationality French
CitizenshipFrench
OccupationEngineer
EmployerRed Bull Racing
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleHead of Race Engineering

Career

Rocquelin 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 the United States, 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 to 2014, he served as Sebastian Vettel's race engineer being instrumental in his four consecutive world championships from 2010 to 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]

The 2022 Australian Grand Prix was Rocquelin's last race trackside as he took on a role in helping the development of drivers in the Red Bull Junior Team. He was replaced by Gianpiero Lambiase who is also Max Verstappen's race engineer.[6]

References
  1. "Rocky V". Red Bull Racing.
  2. "Class of 2013 – Who are the Race Engineers at Ferrari and Red Bull". jobinf1.com.
  3. "Vettel's race engineer handed promotion by Red Bull". F1.com.
  4. "New 2015 race engineer for Sebastian Vettel after promotion for Guillaume Rocquelin". Sky Sports.
  5. "Tell us more about your job at Red Bull, Rocky". f1i.
  6. "Race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin to take on Red Bull Junior Team role, says Horner". F1.com.


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