Tom McCullough

Tom McCullough
Born	(1975-09-22) September 22, 1975 (age 48)
Nationality	British
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Engineer
Employer	Aston Martin F1 Team
Known for	Formula One engineer
Title	Performance director

Tom McCullough (born 22 September 1975)^{[citation needed]} is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the performance director at the Aston Martin Formula One team.^[1]

Career

McCullough spent his time at University competing in amateur motorsport, participating in some Formula Ford 2000 events. Following three years in Formula Ford, McCullough decided that he was more cut out to be an engineer rather than a driver and therefore he began his motorsport engineering career at Reynard Motorsport working on Le Mans projects for Panoz and Cadillac. This gave McCullough hands-on experience to complement his Automotive Engineering studies. He then focussed on Reynard's IndyCar projects in the late 1990s, joining the research and development department.^[1][2]

When Reynard ceased to exist in 2002, McCullough joined Formula One working for Williams Racing, originally working as a data engineer before moving on to become a race engineer. He spent several seasons with the team, working with the likes of Nico Hülkenberg, Rubens Barrichello and Bruno Senna, before leaving Williams at the end of 2012.^[3] Following a brief spell at Sauber as head of track engineering in 2013, he returned to the UK from Switzerland, heading up the trackside engineering office at the Force India team.^[4] Under McCullough's oversight, the Silverstone-based team has had immense success, including Force India's historic fourth-place finishes in 2016 and 2017 and a victory for Racing Point in 2020 in which the team also finished in fourth.^[3]

McCullough's current role at the newly named Aston Martin squad, consists of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend. He works very closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the Aston Martin garage and the performance groups back in the factory to ensure that both cars benefit from the best available information at a race weekend.^[5]

References

• v
• t
• e

Aston Martin in Formula One

David Brown Corporation (1959–1960)
Notable personnel David Brown Ted Cutting Reg Parnell Notable drivers Roy Salvadori Carroll Shelby Maurice Trintignant Formula One cars DBR4 DBR5 Related Aston Martin David Brown Santasalo

Aston Martin F1 Team (2021–)

Chairman Lawrence Stroll Martin Whitmarsh Team Principal Mike Krack Personnel Andrew Alessi Bob Bell Matt Bishop Eric Blandin Dan Fallows Luca Furbatto Andrew Green Akio Haga Tom McCullough Andy Stevenson Former personnel Bernadette Collins Otmar Szafnauer Race drivers 14. Fernando Alonso 18. Lance Stroll 2023 Reserve driver Felipe Drugovich Stoffel Vandoorne 2024 Reserve driver Felipe Drugovich Driver Ambassadors Pedro de la Rosa Jessica Hawkins Driver academy Felipe Drugovich Former drivers Nico Hülkenberg Sebastian Vettel Formula One cars AMR21 AMR22 AMR23 AMR24 Related Aston Martin AMR GP