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61. Professor Gerard Saillant
Age 70 Occupation President of the FIA Institute Nationality French Position Last Year 69 Professor Saillant is a specialist in sports medicine and is considered one of the greatest practitioners in orthopedics and traumatology in the world. Formerly Deputy President…
53. Adrian Newey OBE
Age 56 Occupation Chief Technical Officer, Red Bull Racing Nationality English Position Last Year 41 Newey managed to win a place at the Unviersity of Southampton where he met Ian Reed of March Engineering who offered him a draftsman’s job.…
60. Matteo Bonciani
Age Unknown Occupation F1 Head of Communications at FIA Nationality Italian Position Last Year 68 Appointed in December 2010, Matteo Bonciani was handed these responsibilities by FIA president Jean Todt himself, in a move which evolved beyond the structure of…
51. Jenson Button MBE
Age 35 Occupation Driver, McLaren F1 Nationality English Position Last Year 59 In 2009 Jenson Button became the most talked-about sports personality in the world when he won the F1 World Championship with Brawn GP, having taken a 50% pay…
48. Fernando Alonso
Age 33 Occupation Driver, McLaren F1 Nationality Spanish Position Last Year 55 Fernando Alonso is best known as the man who brought Formula 1 to Spain. Alonso held the record for the youngest driver to win the Formula 1 World…
38. Zak Brown
Age 43 Occupation CEO of Just Marketing International (JMI) Nationality American Position Last Year 59 Racing driver, turned motorsport sponsorship guru, Zak Brown is the CEO of Just Marketing International. He has a self-confessed knack for brokering huge deals as…
41. Julian Jakobi
Age 64 Occupation Chairman of CSS Stellar Group Nationality English Position Last Year 45 He epitomised the phrase “middle-man”, working as an adviser for both Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna during a time when the two were at loggerheads,…
29. Monisha Kaltenborn
Age 44 Occupation Team Principal, Sauber F1 Team Nationality Austrian Position Last Year 28 With a Masters in International Business Law the likeable and pragmatic Monisha was first employed by Sauber in the late 90’s to take charge of the…
9. Dr Helmut Marko
Age 72 Occupation Red Bull Sporting Director Nationality Austrian Position last year 16 Dietrich Mateschitz’s right-hand man in Formula 1 and is widely-believed to be the real strategist behind Red Bull’s rise to prominence. He was a school friend of…
21. Peter Sauber
Age 71 Occupation Owner, Sauber Motorsports Nationality Swiss Position last year 21 The team faced financial ruin in 2009 when BMW announced it was leaving F1, but Sauber structured a deal which allowed him to retake control, following a high…
