The man with which Franco Colapinto will speak most in Alpine on his return to F1

Stuart Barlow is the Argentine track engineer in the French team. Undoubtedly, the man with whom he will have the most in each Grand Prix.

“Friend, are you okay?seventh date of the World Cup. On the other side of the radio of the Argentine pilot is Stuart Barlow, his track engineer, the man with whom he will speak most during each GPits link with the rest of the performance department and strategies of the Alpine team.

Vericuetos del fate. In Williams, English team, Colapinto had a French engineer, Gaetan Jego. Now, in a French team, he has an English engineer. Well, it is also true that Alpine is based in England and is led by an Italian (Flavio Briatore). It is very cosmopolitan. Barlow studied at Oxford Brookes University between 2005 and 2008, but since before he was involved in the world of motoring: He worked as a data engineer from Collard Racing in British tourism. Then passed through the GR Asia.

His path continued with a short seven-month step in Ferrari GB Motorsport (May-December 2008). There he worked on the development of the F430 GTC specification. He prepared aerodynamic test plans and made reports of the tests to the technical director. He also did damping evidence with the contractive damping system, analyzing and informing the results.

During 2009 and 2010 he went through Team CVR, CRS Racing and Modena Group Racing. In 2011-2012 he worked with career engineers and Audi Sport Team Joest systems. He went to work as a freelance engineer with his own company, went through Indycar and finally landed in the F1 with Manor in 2016 as a performance engineer. Manor’s disappearance led him to HWA AG with tasks in DTM and Formula E, until In 2019, Alpine’s turn came.

In the Estone team he began as an engineer of the test team (19-20), he continued as performance engineer of Esteban Ocon (21-24) until he was promoted to a career engineer for this season. His debut in office was with Jack Doohan and, with the replacement of the Australian with Colapinto, he continued his task with the Argentine.

In the Emilia-Romagna GP, Barlow is just in his seventh competition in the position to work with a pilot who is in his tenth Grand Prize. Undoubtedly, a learning path that they must do together.