Listening to the team radios it seems like he is Massas brain. After 8 years, both moved to Williams; Smedley as Head of Vehicle Performance, and Massa as driver. A mechanical engineering graduate, Smedley first came to public attention in his role as Massa’s race engineer at Ferrari, largely thanks to the no-nonsense radio messages relayed to his driver and subsequently broadcast to F1 fans around the world, including his most famous instruction to the Brazilian: “Felipe, baby, stay cool.” I think it was Martin Brundle who said that he is wasted as a race engineer! I think he should get to drive a ferrari one day, at Goodwood! He was race engineer for Badoer and Fisichella in 2009 after Massa's accident They hold fundraising events on Teesside to support the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS) after the death of their daughter Minnie in 2007.James Allen on Formula 1 website – Smedley finally makes Williams switch as head of vehicle performance.
He looked so young; like a sixth former on work placement. Can you confirm you understood that message?”, towards the end of the race when Massa was in the lead. One of my enduring memories was at Spa in 09, giving Luca (or as the team knew him Lookhow Badyouare!)
So happy the Massa/Rob partnership lasts another season I'm not sure whether Massa will get an F1 drive with the grid as it is at the moment. Prior to joining Williams, he was the race engineer for Felipe Massa at Ferrari. Rob Smedley is a race engineer for Formula One at Williams F1. Teesside Ferrari Engineer Rob Smedley has become an internet star after his radio coversation with Felipe Massa.Ferrari Engineer Rob Smedley has become an internet star, after radio conversations between him and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa were turned into a song.Rob, from Teesside, fell in love with the sport at the age of eleven, and is now the man who has helped Ferrari's Felipe Massa find his form this season.During the rain affected Malaysian Grand Prix, Massa shouted on the pit radio for a new visor. Prior to joining Williams, he was the race engineer for Felipe Massa at Ferrari. Źródło: The Scuderia. Ask thepagemistress a question #rob effing smedley #felipe baby #Anonymous. After 8 years, both moved to Williams; Smedley as Head of Vehicle Performance, and Massa as driver.Smedley attended St Peter’s School in South Bank before going to St Mary’s Sixth Form College. Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's engineer at that famous and controversial GP in Germany 2010, had previously met a "baby" Alonso in the F3000, with whom he coincided again in Ferrari. Charged with getting the best out of Felipe Massa as his race engineer, Rob Smedley helped the Brazilian to get within a whisker of the F1 world championship. The famous words of Rob Smedley towards Felipe Massa “Felipe baby, stay cool!” in the dying laps of the Malaysian Grand Prix, when the rain started … In July 2015 he was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Technology from Loughborough University in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Formula 1 and race engineering.At Hockenheim Smedley delivered a very terse radio instruction, “OK, so, Fernando is faster than you. Smedley's radio transmissions to Massa have even achieved cult status, with many Ferrari fans putting his messages on their mobile phones as ringtones.In the middle of the 2006 season, he replaced Gabriele Delli Colli as Following Massa's injury at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Smedley carried on with the role of race engineer for stand-in drivers On 31 January 2014 it was announced by Ted Kravitz (Sky Sports F1) on the last day of testing at Jerez, that Smedley would once again resume his professional relationship with Massa by joining Williams for the 2014 season. Rob Smedley is the man responsible for making Formula 1 more accessible: his current role with the sport’s promoters involves making technical information clearer to fans, as part of efforts to make F1 more understandable — and more interesting. Good man....much of Felipe's success at Ferrari is due to Smedley's firm but caring prodding, as a previous video that I had posted, clearly show. In November 2018, Smedley announced he would leave Williams at the end of the 2018 season.Smedley was awarded an honorary degree ("Doctor of Professional Studies") from At Hockenheim Smedley delivered a very terse radio instruction, "OK, so, Smedley is married to Lucy. Felipe baby, stay cool! Smedley started his Motorsport's career by been a suspension design engineer for the Peugeot … He lived in Normanby until he was 18, before going to Loughborough University and beginning his rise through the ranks in motorsport. I expect so, who else would assume that Rob's encouragement' is essential? 28 listopada 1973 w Normanby, Middlesbrough) – Brytyjczyk, były inżynier wyścigowy Felipe Massy w zespole Ferrari Formuły 1.. Życiorys. kingfisher95. If he did leave F1, surely Smedley would stay.