From Race Engineer to Technical Director: Jody Egginton on 30 Years in F1

Jody Egginton has spent three decades in Formula 1 engineering, from an unplanned first break at a small F1 team to leading Scuderia Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri and now Red Bull Advanced Technologies. In this episode of High-Performance Leaders, Egginton talks to host James Plant about the phone call that pulled him away from a graduate job, the reality of building a Formula 1 team from almost nothing, and the risk-taking, resourcefulness and openness that have shaped how he leads engineering teams under pressure. It's an inside account of what three decades in one of sport's toughest feedback loops actually teaches you about performance. FIVE KEY MOMENTS 00:06:02: The phone call from Mike Gascoigne that ended his graduate engineering job 00:16:04: Markus Winkelhock's shock rise from last on the grid to leading at the 2007 Nürburgring Grand Prix 01:00:29: The decision to stop developing the 2018 car and gamble the budget on 2019 01:12:54: Reliving the closing laps of Abu Dhabi 2021 from the pit wall HOST James Plant linkedin.com/in/james-plant-sinclairjames GUEST Jody Egginton Engineering Director, Red Bull Advanced Technologies linkedin.com/in/jody-egginton-5a639927 linkedin.com/company/red-bull-racing HOST COMPANY Sinclair James linkedin.com/company/sinclair-james SPONSOR High-Performance Leaders is sponsored by Sinclair James, an executive, interim and project staffing firm specialising in Construction, Property and Engineering. sinclairjames.co.uk PRODUCTION Produced by Vertical Drop. vertical-drop.com