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Career

Rocquelin, or “Rocky” as he is generally referred to at Red Bull, studied engineering at the Grenoble Institute of Technology. He began his motorsport career in the United States, working as a trackside engineer in CART / IndyCar racing for

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with Mark Blundell and then later at

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. Rocquelin then moved to Red Bull Racing in Formula One in 2006, starting as David Coulthard's race engineer, where he worked until 2008. From 2009 to 2014, he served as

's race engineer being instrumental in his four consecutive world championships from 2010 to 2013. In 2015, he was promoted to Head of Race Engineering. Rocquelin's role of Head of Race Engineering from 2015 to 2022 consisted of extracting the maximum performance out of both cars on any given weekend. He worked very closely with the engineering teams on both sides of the Red Bull garage and the performance groups back in the factory to ensure that both cars benefit from the best available information at a race weekend. The 2022 Australian Grand Prix was Rocquelin's last race trackside as he took on a role in helping the development of drivers in the Red Bull Junior Team starting in April 2022. He was replaced by Gianpiero Lambiase who is also

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's race engineer. The

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saw Rocquelin temporarily return to trackside operations for FP1 as Red Bull Junior Liam Lawson took the seat of Max Verstappen for the session. The following year's

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saw Rocquelin return to trackside operations temporarily for FP1 as

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and Isack Hadjar took the seats of Max Verstappen and

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respectively.

References

Living people Formula One engineers French motorsport people Red Bull Racing 1974 births {{F1-bio-stub