Pat Fry

Pat Fry is the kind of figure I find fascinating in Formula One precisely because he works away from the cameras. He's a British engineer who has cycled through almost the entire grid over the decades: Benetton, McLaren, Ferrari, Manor, Renault and Alpine, and now Williams as Chief Technical Officer since 2023. That resume tells me he's the sort of technical brain teams keep recruiting when they need to dig themselves out of a hole. Born in 1964 in Shepperton, he's spent a lifetime chasing tenths of a second. I always think the real drama in F1 happens in people like him, not just the drivers.

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Name (English)

Pat Fry

Name (Japanese)

パット・フライ

Reading

ぱっと・ふらい

Born

March 17, 1964 (age 62)

Origin

Shepperton, United Kingdom

Occupation

engineer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Fry
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173631

Tags

• engineer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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