Mario Theissen

El Dr. Mario Theissen (nacido el 17 de Agosto de 1952 en Monschau, Germany) is the former BMW Motorsport, el Director y lo que el equipo principal de BMW Sauber, the company's Formula One team from 2005 hasta 2009, cuando el BMW sold the team back to Peter Sauber. After graduarse from RWTH Aachen University con un diploma en ingeniería mecánica, Theissen joined BMW en the motor de cálculo del departamento, en 1977. Over the following years he took on various responsabilidades en BMW motor de desarrollo de la división y en 1989 gained a doctorate en ingeniería from the Ruhr University Bochum. En 1991 he was made head of Product Concepts at BMW and a year later became Director de Advanced Drivetrain de Desarrollo. En 1994, pp lo promoted to Director de BMW Technik GmbH. En 1998, in addition to his job as head of BMW Técnica, he took on the task of setting up the BMW oficina de Tecnología en Palo Alto, California, He became BMW Motorsport, el Director de la alongside Gerhard Berger en Abril de 1999 with supervisión de BMW de la 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 lo credited with having the most powerful engine on the grid. While achieving notable successes, such as a strong desafío campeonato en 2003, the relationship between team and engine maker began to deteriorate. During the course of the 2004 y 2005 F1 seasons, Theissen increasingly became publicly critical of the WilliamsF1 equipo's inability to create a package capable of winning the constructor's championship or even múltiples victorias within a single temporada. However, WilliamsF1 blamed BMW not for producing a good enough motor. This public deterioración of the relationship between BMW and WilliamsF1, y entre Theissen y Patrick Head, en particular, en lo que a factor de BMW de la decision to buy Limpio. Theissen lo que hizo el equipo principal of the resulting BMW Sauber equipo, and in their first season, they achieved 5º en the constructors campeonato, both a considerable mejora on Limpio's previous season and a match for Williams' previous posición en the standings. En 2007, the BMW Sauber equipo terminó 2º en the World Constructors Campeonato after McLaren-Mercedes were excluded following a spying episodio. En the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix Robert Kubica led Nick Heidfeld to finish first and second, dar BMW su primera victoria como constructor. After BMW de la decision to sell the team back to Peter Sauber and depart from Formula 1, Theissen decided to leave the sport as well and retain his position as BMW Motorsport, el director. Theissen retired from BMW on Junio 30, 2011, to be replaced by Jens Marquardt.