Alpine tech boss Pat Fry: 35 years at the top of F1

Published: March 23, 2022, 5 a.m.

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Name a top F1 team or driver \\u2013 Pat Fry is probably a big part of their success. He\\u2019s spent 35 years winning with Benetton, McLaren, Ferrari and Alpine, racing with world champion drivers Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. In that time he\\u2019s seen F1 change massively, and played a big role in developing game-changing racing technology. Pat tells Tom Clarkson about the challenges of F1\\u2019s new 2022 rules, his favourite drivers, his toughest bosses and how to build a winning team. Pat\\u2019s still racing as hard as ever as Alpine\\u2019s Chief Technical Officer. Today he\\u2019s chasing the performance gains he hopes will make the French team F1 world championship contenders in the future.
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