Eachtra, I give you James Allison! My beloved Technical Director currently at Mercedes!
My Jallison! He started out at Benetton in 1991 (in a fun stroke of luck, he talks about how he sent out letters to all the teams and Benetton got his letter right at the same moment they sent out an ad for a junior designer. Coincidences....[he worked in aerodynamics though]), moving to Larrousse in 1993, and then ping ponging between Benetton/Renault + Ferrari for a little bit. He was at Benetton in 1994-97 then moved to Ferrari in 1999 until 2005 where he went back to Renault. In 2013 he went back to Ferrari until the middle of 2016 where he left. Following the beginning of 2017, he became Technical Director at Mercedes where he currently is now (though there was that 2022 stint where he was like....sort of there but mostly doing boat things).
HE LOVES PLANES!!! He mentions he enjoyed building model planes and here he mentioned having a private pilot license. though he seems more interested in military planes which i know u like...dgaf about bwahaha. My other favourite fact about him is that he wanted to be a RAF pilot but because he's colourblind, he tried to just...fraud the Ishihara test so he could join as he explains here...also adding my favourite video of Jally here too
I picked Jallison for you because firstly, insanely smart and insanely knowledgeable about your hobbies (I love when you chat with me about planes and your ocs and all that). Secondly, I think James is really clever and I enjoy how blunt but funny he can be! I was thinking of all the discussions we have had about discourses and it reminds me of Jallison doing his "are we morons" slideshow. Super cute!