Mark Slade (engineer)
Mark Slade (born 1966/1967) is a British Formula One engineer. He studied mechanical engineering at Heriot-Watt University and began his career as a design engineer for Reynard Racing Cars and Ralt Racing before joining McLaren in 1991. In 1994 he moved to the trackside role of assistant race engineer to Martin Brundle. He became Mika Häkkinen’s race engineer in 1998 and helped the Finn win two world championships. Slade stayed with McLaren until 2009, working with Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen.
In 2010 he moved to Renault as Vitaly Petrov’s race engineer, and in 2011 he joined Mercedes as Michael Schumacher’s race engineer. He worked for Lotus as Räikkönen’s racing engineer from 2012 to 2013 and as Pastor Maldonado’s racing engineer from 2014 to 2015. He became Renault’s chief engineer in 2016, then worked with Nico Hülkenberg (2017–2019) and Esteban Ocon (2020).
From 2022 to 2024 he was the race engineer for Kevin Magnussen at Haas F1 Team, leaving the team after the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix.
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