After working graduating in mechanical engineering at thePolitecnico di Torino inItaly and theUniversity of Leeds in the UK. Furbatto started work for theTyrrell rebrandedBAR F1 team as a performance engineer. He started working with the test team and then moved over to the race squad, before departing in the year 2000 forToyota Motorsport.[2]
In 2001, he moved toMcLaren Racing, where he worked as Head of Materials, growing the department exponentially and working on race winning machinery. He was promoted to project manager where he played a crucial role in the design of the 2010 and 2011 McLaren cars under the supervision ofPaddy Lowe, before departing the team at the end of 2011 forToro Rosso.[3]
At Toro Rosso Furbatto took up the position of Chief Designer, where he remained for three years. After a brief stint back with McLaren working on their GT series entries,[4][5] he was back as a Chief Designer for theManor Team. He joined during the 2015 reshuffle and took responsibility for the 2016 designs.[6] It was a better year for the squad, but unfortunately money troubles continued to plague Manor and they folded ahead of the 2017 season. In June 2017 he joinedSauber Motorsport as Chief Designer.[7] He then became the Chief Designer at theAlfa RomeoFormula One team.[7] Furbatto moved to joinAston Martin F1 as their new Engineering Director at the start of 2022.[8]
