James Key (Formula One)

James Key is a British Formula One engineer who studied mechanical engineering at the University of Nottingham, with sponsorship from Lotus Engineering. He joined Jordan Grand Prix in 1998 as a data engineer, became race engineer for Takuma Sato, and moved through the wind tunnel and vehicle dynamics departments to head vehicle dynamics. In 2005, in his early thirties, he became technical director of the team then running as MF1 Racing, and kept the role through its change into Spyker and Force India. He later served as technical director at Sauber, Toro Rosso and McLaren, and returned to the Sauber team in 2023, which became the Audi works team, where he is technical director.