Pat Fry

Pat Fry (born 17 March 1964) is an English motor racing engineer and former chassis technical director for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team. He was assistant technical director under Aldo Costa until the position was eliminated by organisational restructuring.

Early career

Fry was born in Shepperton, Surrey, England. After attempting several engineering courses, he became an apprentice at Thorn EMI in 1981. While at Thorn EMI, he completed a day-release course in electronics at the City of London Polytechnic. He moved onto Thorn's missile programmes, before deciding to leave the company in 1987 to pursue a career in motorsport.

Motorsports career

Benetton (1987-1993)

Fry had an interest in building suspension systems for motorbikes in his spare time, and joined the Benetton Formula One team's research and development department in Witney, Oxfordshire, who at the time were working on active suspension systems. He moved to the test team, and then to the teams Godalming research and development department. He returned to the test team in 1991, before being made Martin Brundle's race engineer in 1992.