Michael Sansoni, Lewis Hamilton’s former performance engineer at the Mercedes F1 team, has joined Manchester United as the club’s director of data.

Sansoni spent more than a decade at Mercedes, rising to the role of Hamilton’s trackside performance engineer in January 2023.

Former Lewis Hamilton engineer joins Man Utd from Mercedes

He left Mercedes in April with Manchester United – the historic football club in which INEOS founder and one-third Mercedes F1 team owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe acquired a minor shareholding in February 2024 – recently confirming his arrival as the club’s director of data.

Ratcliffe has been attempting to turn Manchester United’s fortunes around after a lean period following the retirement of legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013.

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