Laurent Mekies

Laurent Mekies

File:Laurent Mekies at the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix.jpg Mekies in 2022
Personal information
Born	(1977-04-28) 28 April 1977 Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Alma mater	Loughborough University
Occupation	Engineer
Years active	2001–present
Sport
Sport	Formula One
Position	Deputy Team Principal and racing director
Team	Scuderia Ferrari

Laurent Mekies (born 28 April 1977) is a French engineer working as assistant team principal and race director for Scuderia Ferrari. He is due to replace Franz Tost as team principal of Scuderia AlphaTauri.

Career

Mekies graduated from Loughborough University after obtaining a master's degree from the École supérieure des techniques aéronautiques et de construction automobile in Paris. In 2000, he started his career at Asiatech in Formula Three before entering Formula One, working for Arrows. He switched to Minardi in the following years, where he worked as the race engineer for Mark Webber, Justin Wilson, Zsolt Baumgartner and Christijan Albers.

When the team was acquired by the Austrian energy drink maker Red Bull and renamed as Scuderia Toro Rosso at the end of 2005, he was promoted to be the team's chief engineer.

Mekies left the Faenza-based team to join the FIA in 2014 as safety director and was appointed F1 deputy race director in 2017. He moved to Scuderia Ferrari in September 2018 as sporting director. He has been in charge of the Track and Performance department since 2019. In January 2021, he was appointed as Deputy Team Principal and Racing Director of Scuderia Ferrari.

Mekies will be replacing Franz Tost as team principal of Scuderia AlphaTauri at an unspecified date.