SUPERCARS teams’ championship leader Tickford Racing has bolstered its brains trust with the recruitment of performance engineer Rafal Lewandowski.
The Polish guru comes to Tickford with a diverse resume, including a stint with Toyota in the World Endurance Championship.
Lewandowski started with the Melbourne-based Ford squad two weeks ago.
“It’s effectively a new position to sit between the two cars as performance engineer and help take a load off Brad (Wischusen, technical director), particularly with sim work and that sort of thing,” Tickford CEO Simon Brookhouse told V8 Sleuth.
“He’s an expert in sim, so it’s something he has brought in with a different skillset and someone from outside of Supercars to see if we can get some different opinions and new views on what we can do better.
“The drivers love him.”
Lewandowski’s appointment follows Grove Racing signing Italian engineer Riccardo Corte from Ferrari’s Formula 1 program.
Corte is race engineering Kai Allen this season.