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Tristan Alonso Villaverde

Frizington,Cumbria

Summary

Mechanical Engineer specialized in Vehicle Dynamics, with extensive experience in both the design and development of competition vehicles and trackside operations within professional racing teams. Strong backgrund in vehicle dynamics, driver performance and data analysys.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education

Work history

Junior Rally Engineer

M-Sport UK Ltd
Cockermouth, Cumbria
2024.09 - Current

Rally1

  • Rally Engineer for Mārtiņš Sesks/Renārs Francis in WRC.
  • Test car engineer (Preparation prior to WRC rallies and testing of new parts).
  • Performance Engineer (Driving/Data analysis for each WRC round, working closely with all the Rally1 and Rally2 drivers).
  • Systems Engineering (Sensor calibration and creation of vehicle dynamics channels for testing).

Vehicle Dynamics

  • Development of new suspension geometry for Fiesta Rally2 Mk2 (Part of the last evo package).
  • Development of Vehicle Dynamics utilities for the Rally1 and Rally2 departments.
  • Ford simulator co-ordinator from M-Sport (Modelling, session planning, and remote support).
  • Creation of templates and mathematical channels that help describe the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle.
  • Damper testing on a damper dyno for mathematical modelling.

Team Member

Oxford Brookes Racing
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2023.09 - 2024.07
  • Modelling the vehicle's cooling system in order to improve the design of the 2024 car.
  • Mechanical design of coldplates that cool the car's inverter .
  • Design and simulation of composite laminates.

Data Engineer

Pro-Driver Motorsport
La Coruña, Spain
2022.01 - 2023.10
  • Data engineer and mechanic in the Spanish asphalt rally championship and the Galician rally championship (Spanish Rally Champion 2023)

Mechanical Engineer

WOLFAST
Gijón, Spain
2020.01 - 2023.10
  • Mechanical chassis design for electric racing motorcycles.
  • Cooling system modelling and design for electric racing motorcycles.
  • On-Track Prototype Testing leader.

Internship Trainee

Bango Racing Cars SL
Langreo, Spain
2022.01 - 2022.06
  • Kinematic Geometry and Mechanical Design of the Rear Double Wishbone Suspension of the Hillclimb Prototype BR53 (The car went on to achieve success at national and European level).

Education

Master of Science - Motorsport

Oxford Brookes University
Oxford
2023.09 - 2024.09

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Universidad de Oviedo
Oviedo, Spain

Skills

    Software I have used for motorsport engineering projects:

  • Programming: MATLAB/Simulink, GNU Octave, VBA Excel, Pyhton (Numpy)
  • Kinematics: MSc Adams, CarRealTime
  • Data: PI Toolbox, Wintax4, MoTeC
  • System Engineering: PI Toolset, CalTool
  • CAD: Solidworks, Inventor
  • FEM: Ansys
  • CFD: Star-CCM

Languages

English
Fluent
Spanish
Native

Timeline

Junior Rally Engineer

M-Sport UK Ltd
2024.09 - Current

Team Member

Oxford Brookes Racing
2023.09 - 2024.07

Master of Science - Motorsport

Oxford Brookes University
2023.09 - 2024.09

Data Engineer

Pro-Driver Motorsport
2022.01 - 2023.10

Internship Trainee

Bango Racing Cars SL
2022.01 - 2022.06

Mechanical Engineer

WOLFAST
2020.01 - 2023.10

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Universidad de Oviedo
Tristan Alonso Villaverde