{"id":620590,"date":"2026-04-22T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:40:09","slug":"what-makes-a-good-f1-driver-and-race-engineer-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620590\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good F1 driver and race engineer partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between a Formula 1 driver and their race engineer has always been important, and this has been amplified in 2026 due to the complexity of the regulations.<\/p>\n<p>To understand their bond, we&#8217;ve spoken to ex-F1 engineer\u00a0Julien Simon-Chautemps, who offered guidance from the pit wall to drivers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/kimi-raikkonen\/829151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kimi Raikkonen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/romain-grosjean\/829275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Romain Grosjean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/pastor-maldonado\/829674\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pastor Maldonado<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/vitaly-petrov\/841484\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vitaly Petrov<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/jolyon-palmer\/829460\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jolyon Palmer<\/a> across his time at Lotus\/Renault, and Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>Julien delves into what makes a good race engineer, how their role in 2026 has changed, and what it was like to work with drivers like Raikkonen during his time in F1.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The relationship between a Formula 1 driver and their race engineer has always been important, and this has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82,232986],"class_list":{"0":"post-620590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-video-what-makes-a-good-f1-driver-and-race-engineer-partnership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}