Don’t sleep on Alex Albon. He's been instrumental in Williams’ rejuvenation.

Entering Formula 1 as the 11th team might be a well-publicized difficulty right now, but thanks to Frontier Developments’ F1 Manager series, it’s less of an impossibility -- at least in the virtual world.That’s because along with the typical refinements you’d expect from an annual release, the headline addition to...

New Williams chief technical officer Pat Fry wants the team to be breaking into the fight for podiums at the front of the field “in two, three, four years’ time” as he targets the organization becoming a championship contender.Fry (pictured above) was brought in by team principal James Vowles last...

The arrival of Pat Fry as chief technical officer has been “massively important” for Williams, according to team principal James Vowles.Fry was signed from Alpine earlier this year, starting work at Grove in November and attending races in Brazil and Abu Dhabi as he assesses the team’s current working set-up....

New Williams chief technical officer Pat Fry says a lack of drive to move Alpine any further than fourth place led to his decision to leave and join forces with James Vowles.Vowles took over as Williams team principal ahead of the 2023 season and needed to find a chief technical...

Williams has signed experienced engineer Pat Fry from Alpine to be the team’s new chief technical officer.Fry has been at Alpine in the same CTO role since early 2022, having previously joined from McLaren in 2020 as chassis technical director. His short spell at McLaren was his second after a...

Alpine has announced promotions for both Pat Fry and Matt Harman as part of a restructuring of its technical organization.Fry has worked in Formula 1 for 35 years, first joining the current team at Enstone -- when it was known as Benetton -- back in 1987. Since then he has...

With Formula 1’s three days of pre-season testing about to begin, all eyes will be on the timesheets to see who has gained and lost out. But headline times are a notoriously fickle indicator of form, and you need to look more closely to get a more representative view of...

Renault has announced Pat Fry will join the team as part of the technical management setup at Enstone.Fry was most recently at McLaren, helping the team’s restructuring following a number of poor cars and a disappointing spell with Honda. His role at McLaren was a short-term one as James Key...

Pat Fry has returned to McLaren in the role of engineering director, eight years after he left the team for Ferrari.Starting his F1 career with Benetton, Fry worked for McLaren from 1993 until 2010, rising to the role of chief engineer before joining Ferrari. Four years at Maranello saw Fry...