HONDA RACING F1 TEAM APPOINTS DEPUTY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
The Honda Racing F1 Team is pleased to announce that it has
appointed Jörg Zander to the role of Deputy Technical
Director, supporting Senior Technical Director Shuhei Nakamoto.
Jörg, 43, joins Honda from the BMW Sauber F1 Team where
he held the position of Chief Designer. He has worked with
Honda previously with whom he held the role of Chief Engineer
for Mechanical & Transmission from 2002 to 2005. He was
then recruited to Williams in the role of Chief Designer,
where he enjoyed a successful partnership with Chief Aerodynamicist
Loïc Bigois, who has also recently joined Honda in the
position of Head of Aerodynamics.
Shuhei Nakamoto, Senior Technical Director of the Honda Racing
F1 Team, commented: "I am very pleased that Jörg
will return to Honda. I am looking forward to working with
him again. This is the latest in a series of key appointments
that we have made in order to bolster our team. We have some
very talented people at Honda but Formula One is a rapidly
changing sport and we need to evolve in order to keep pace.
With the steady performance improvements we have made over
the past few races and a strengthened technical team, I am
sure that the difficulties we have seen in the first half
of 2007 are now behind us."
Commenting on his new role, Jörg Zander said: "I
am delighted to be returning to Honda and to England, where
I know I will feel very much at home again. Honda is a fantastic
group of people. It is also a team with enormous potential
and the determination to fight hard to achieve its ambitions.
I am very excited that I will be a part of that."
Nick Fry, Chief Executive Officer of the Honda Racing F1
Team, said: "We are delighted to welcome Jörg back
to Honda in the position of Deputy Technical Director. In
his role as Chief Engineer for Mechanical & Transmission
he played a pivotal role during a period of on-track success
for our team. In my opinion Jörg is one of the most creative
and energetic engineers in Formula One and I am delighted
that he has decided to return home. In his new role with our
team Jörg will assist Senior Technical Director Shuhei
Nakamoto with technical leadership."
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