Pat Fry becomes consultant at Manor

Pat Fry joins Manor Racing as a consultant for the 2016 season. The former technical director of the chassis part of the Team Ferrari will help the modest team develop its engineering capabilities. The Briton will find Dave ryan with whom he worked McLaren who now occupies the position of sports director and Nicholas Tombazis, former chief designer of the Prancing Horse, as head of aerodynamics.

“We are very happy to welcome Pat to help us evolve our technical package”, commented Dave Ryan. “The objective is to improve the performance of the car from the Barcelona tests (February 22 to 25 and March 1 to 2) to find it on track in Melbourne (March 20 in Australia). We would thus ensure the best possible start to the season and we would have a good basis for development. »