Mario Theissen

Dr Mario Theissen (née le 17 Août 1952 à Monschau, Germany) is the former de BMW Motorsport, Director and was team principal of BMW Sauber, the company's Formula One team from 2005 jusqu'à 2009, when BMW sold the équipe back to Peter Sauber. After graduating from RWTH Aachen University avec un diplôme en génie mécanique, Theissen joined BMW dans the engine calculation département en 1977. Over the following years he took on various responsibilities BMW s engine development, and en 1989 gained a doctorate in engineering from the Ruhr University Bochum. En 1991 he was made head of Product Concepts at BMW and a year later became Director of Advanced Drivetrain de Développement. En 1994, he was promu to Director of BMW Technik GmbH. En 1998, in addition to his job as head of BMW Technique, he took on the task of setting up the BMW Technology Office, à Palo Alto, California, He became BMW Motorsport, Directeur alongside Gerhard Berger en Avril 1999 with oversight of BMW Formula One team and other motorsport activities, including BMW s factory entries in the World Touring Car Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. BMW entered Formula One with a partnership agreement with WilliamsF1 en 1998. En 2001, BMW, ce qui credited with having the most powerful moteur de on the grid. While achieving notable successes, such as a strong championship challenge en 2003, the relationship between team and engine maker a commencé à deteriorate. During the course of the 2004 et 2005 F1 seasons, Theissen became increasingly publicly critical of the WilliamsF1 team's inability to create a package capable of winning the constructor's championship or even multiples victoires within a single saison. However, WilliamsF1 blamed BMW for not producing a good enough moteur. This public deterioration of the relationship between BMW and WilliamsF1, and between Theissen et Patrick Head in particular, ce qui a factor in BMW s decision to buy Propre. Theissen was made team principal of the resulting BMW Sauber team, and in their first season they achieved 5th dans the championnat des constructeurs, both a considerable improvement on Propre's previous season and match for Williams' previous position in the standing. En 2007, the BMW Sauber équipe fini 2nd in the World Constructors Championship after McLaren-Mercedes were excluded following a spying épisode. Dans the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix Robert Kubica led Nick Heidfeld to finish first and second, giving BMW its first victory as a constructor. After BMW s decision to sell the équipe back to Peter Sauber and depart from Formula 1, Theissen decided to leave the sport as well and retain his position as de BMW Motorsport, directeur. Theissen retired from BMW on 30 June, 2011, to be replaced by Jens Marquardt.