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Honda F1 Team Profiles

By Phil Huff February 24 2007
Within these pages you'll find details on every senior member of the Honda Racing F1 Team, from CEO Nick Fry, through Honda Racing Development's Takeo Kiuchi and on to the senior race engineer Andrew Shovlin, with everyone in between.

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	Yasuhiro Wada President, Honda Racing Development Joining the Honda Motor Company in 1974, Yasuhiro Wada worked through a variety of roles, ending up as the General Manager of Honda's motorsport division in 2000.
	Nick Fry Chief Executive Officer Nick Fry joined BAR at the start of 2002 under the management agreement with Prodrive. He had been Managing Director of the Prodrive group of companies since 2001, but walked away from that in 2005 to head up the rejuvenated BAR Honda team.
	Shuhei Nakamoto Senior Technical Director Shuhei Nakamoto joined the Honda Racing Corporation back in 1983, rising quickly to Project Leader the next year, looking after chassis design for the RS125 and RS250 production race motorbikes.
	Gil de Ferran Sporting Director Gil de Ferran, one of auto racing's most sophisticated and diverse drivers, made history in May of 2003 by taking the chequered flag at the 87th running of the Indianapolis 500.
	Otmar Szafnauer Vice President, Honda Racing Development Starting his career as an Manufacturing Engineer with the Ford Motor Company, Otmar Szafnauer has created an impressive CV, with a passion for racing running through it.
	Ron Meadows Race Team Manager Ron Meadows left school and joined TWR as a mechanic in 1980, moving upwards rapidly to become the teams Chief Mechanic in their French Touring Car outfit.
	Craig Wilson Chief Race Engineer Craig Wilson graduated from Imperial College, London, in the early 1990s with a Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering, having collaborated with the Benetton F1 team for his final year's thesis.
	Andrew Shovlin Senior Race Engineer to Jenson Button Andrew Shovlin graduated from Leeds University in 1998, after completing a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a PhD in Vehicle Dynamics and Control.
	Jock Clear Senior Race Engineer to Rubens Barrichello Jock Clear's involvement with motor racing goes back to 1988, when the freshly qualified young mechanical engineer joined Lola Cars as a design draftsman.
	Geoffrey Willis Technical Director Although Geoffrey Willis has been involved with motorsport for 14 years, it was an involvement with waterborne speed craft that launched his career into Formula One.
	Ken Hashimoto F1 Executive Technical Adviser, Honda R&D Ken Hashimoto now holds the post of Executive Technical Adviser to the F1 Chassis Technology Development team at Honda R&D, and that's partly due to his life-long passion for racing.