Julien Simon-Chautemps (born 14 May 1978) is a French
motor racing engineer. He has been race engineer of the
Sauber Formula One team since 2017.
Career
Simon-Chautemps is a graduate of the French
Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées
The Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (IPSA), ( en, Institute of Polytechnic Science and Aeronautics) is a French private ''grande école'' in aerospace engineering located at Ivry-sur-Seine, Lyon and Toulouse, recognized by the Frenc ...
(2002). He started his career as Technical Director of
Prema Powerteam (2003-2007) and then to
Trident Racing (2007). He moved to
Formula One in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he was race engineer to
Jarno Trulli at
Toyota and
Lotus
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*Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa commonly known as lotus, particularly:
** ''Lotus'' (genus), a genus of terrestrial plants in the family Fabaceae
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. In 2011 he moved to
Renault, and was engineer to
Vitaly Petrov,
Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (; born 17 October 1979), nicknamed "The Iceman", is a Finnish racing driver who competed in Formula One between 2001 and 2021 for Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari, Lotus, and Alfa Romeo. Räikkönen won the 2007 Formula One Wo ...
,
Pastor Maldonado,
Romain Grosjean and
Jolyon Palmer
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.
In 2017, Simon-Chautemps moved to
Sauber.
F1: Simon-Chautemps signe chez Sauber
which was rebranded to Alfa Romeo in 2019. When Räikkönen joined Alfa Romeo in 2019, Chautemps became his race engineer for the second time.
In 2022, Simon-Chautemps decided to leave the Sauber team and has made his own business called JSC7 Engineering Ltd.
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées alumni
French motorsport people
French automotive engineers
Formula One engineers
Renault people
Alfa Romeo people