Jonathan Eddolls
{{short description|British engineer}}
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| birth_place = United Kingdom
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| occupation = Engineer
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| employer = Scuderia AlphaTauri
| known_for = Formula One engineer
| title = Head of trackside engineering
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Jonathan Eddolls (born 1 February 1981){{Cite web |title=Jonathan Eddolls |url=http://www.williamsf1.com/racing/about/our-people/jonathan-eddolls |access-date=10 December 2021 |website=WilliamsF1.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327093714/http://www.williamsf1.com/racing/about/our-people/jonathan-eddolls |archive-date=27 March 2016 |url-status=dead}} is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the head of trackside engineering at the Scuderia AlphaTauri Formula One team.{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1855373734487577|title=Meet Jonathan Eddolls|publisher=Scuderia AlphaTauri}}
Career
Eddolls studied mechanical engineering at university, before landing a summer internship at Williams Racing. Eddolls greatly impressed the Grove outfit, so was offered a full time position as a graduate engineer where he rotated between departments.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG89zyMxCE8|title=Formula 1 experts at work - Jonathan Eddolls, Williams F1 Data engineer|publisher=Williams F1}} Eventually Eddolls focused on data and performance engineering becoming Rubens Barrichello's data engineer for 2010-2011 and then provided the same role to Bruno Senna.{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/10204658.williams-f1-announce-new-race-engineer-line-up/|title= Williams F1 announce new race engineer line-up|publisher=Oxford Mail}} In 2013 he was promoted to race engineer to Valtteri Bottas and although their first season was disappointing, they proved to be a great team from 2014 to 2016 as Bottas recorded multiple podiums and finished in the top six in both 2014 and 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFUMAFYbiQ|title= A chat with Valtteri Bottas' race engineer Jonathan Eddolls|publisher=Randstead}} In 2017 Eddolls left Williams for Toro Rosso to seek a new challenge as head of trackside engineering, a position he holds today as the team as evolved into Scuderia AlphaTauri.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2019/08/eddolls-toro-rosso-had-an-eventful-hungarian-gp/|title=Eddolls: Toro Rosso had an 'eventful' Hungarian GP|date=8 August 2019|publisher=thecheckeredflag.co.uk}} His current role consists of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend; working closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the AlphaTauri garage and the performance groups back in Faenza.
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Category:British motorsport people