Jody Egginton

{{short description|British engineer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|01|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Coventry, United Kingdom

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| employer = RB Formula One Team

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Jody Egginton (born 28 January 1974) is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the technical director at the RB Formula One Team.{{cite web|url=https://www.scuderiaalphatauri.com/en/athlete/jody-egginton/|title=Jody Egginton|publisher=Scuderia AlphaTauri}}

Career

Egginton started his career in motorsport at the Tyrell F1 team as a Junior Designer in 1996, for a one-year stint at the team. He subsequently went on to work for Xtrac as a Gearbox Design Engineer before moving to Germany to work for Opel Team Holzer as a Design, Race, and Test Team Engineer, where he spent the following five years.{{cite web|url=https://sidepodcast.com/f1-employee/jody-egginton|publisher=sidepodcast|title=Jody Egginton}} Egginton momentarily worked for Aston Martin Racing as a Race & Design Engineer before returning to Formula One as a Race Engineer with Midland F1 which evolved into Spyker and later Force India. During his time he was the race engineer to Christijan Albers, Sakon Yamamoto and Giancarlo Fisichella.{{cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/f1-racing-uk/20190601/282273846871578|publisher=GP racing|title=Stepping out of the shadows}}

In 2010, Egginton left the Silverstone outfit and joined the fledging Team Lotus as Chief Engineer. Two years later he was promoted to Operations Director, a position he held for another two years until he joined Scuderia Toro Rosso as its Head of Vehicle Performance in 2014.{{cite web|title= F1 Nation: Technical Director Jody Egginton opens up on the secrets of AlphaTauri's success in 2020|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.f1-nation-technical-director-jody-egginton-opens-up-on-the-secrets-of.56M8lj7u3tpjvO64koNIRf.html|publisher=F1.com}} Three years later, Egginton was promoted to Deputy Technical Director and afterwards to Technical Director as the team became Scuderia AlphaTauri Egginton spends his time working between the two factories in Faenza and Bicester, having overall Technical responsibility for all Technical & car performance activities.{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/formula1/egginton-defends-tsunoda-rookies-have-ups-and-downs/ar-AANJzaQ?c=8436659145714066722%25252C4573163938479657171|publisher=msn|title= Egginton defends Tsunoda: Rookies have ups and downs}}

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{{Force India F1}}

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Category:Living people

Category:British motorsport people

Category:Formula One engineers

Category:1974 births