One of Japanese racing's top race engineers of the past five years is leaving SuperGT and SFormula behind to work with Toyota in the WEC: rd_raceengineer
The Canadian will replace Jakob Andreasen in the role of chief engineer for the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid shared by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa, bringing down the curtain on a five-year stint working in Japan’s two premier motorsport series.
He also has experience of working with team principal Kamui Kobayashi, whom he race engineered at the KCMG team in Super Formula in 2019 . He took ARTA pair Tomoki Nojiri and Nirei Fukuzumi to four wins as well as the runner-up spot in the championship last year, but the impending news of his departure
After a season working with Kazuya Oshima in 2018, he then joined KCMG to engineer Kobayashi before crossing the floor to the Honda camp for 2020.
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