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| Born | Patrick Allen Lowe (1962-04-08)8 April 1962 (age 62) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Sevenoaks School Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and CEO,Zero; FormerFormula One Chief Technical Officer |
| Spouse | Anna Danshina |
| Children | 2 |
Patrick Allen Lowe (born 8 April 1962) is the founder and CEO of the fossil-free synthetic fuel companyZero. A former motor racing engineer and computer scientist, he spent 32 years working inFormula One, serving as Chief Technical Officer atWilliams Racing, Executive Director (Technical) atMercedes Formula One team and Technical Director atMcLaren. He was involved with cars that won 12 World Championships (7 Drivers', 5 Constructors') and secured 158 race wins. He left Formula One in 2019 and co-founded Zero in 2020.
Lowe attendedSevenoaks School from 1976 until 1980 and graduated fromSidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1984 with a degree in Engineering.
Lowe worked in Formula One over four decades. He was involved in cars that won 12 World Championships (7 Drivers and 5 Constructors) and 10Autosport Racing Car of the Year awards, pioneering innovative systems including active suspension, traction control and driving simulators. He was the Technical Director behind the first 53 wins ofLewis Hamilton's record-breaking career and he led the Mercedes team to 19 wins from 21 races in 2016.
In 1987 Lowe was employed byWilliams as Joint Head of Electronics. He spent six years at Williams, during which time he oversaw the development of active suspension, used to helpNigel Mansell win the1992 World Championship.[1]
Lowe moved toMcLaren in 1993, when he was employed as Head of Research and Development, a department subsequently renamedVehicle Technology.[2] He was head of the department for eight years until 2001, when he was appointed Chief Engineer Systems Development, a role focusing on the race programme for theMcLaren MP4-20. In May 2005 he assumed the role of Engineering Director, which gave him responsibility for all the engineering departments.[3] In January 2011 Lowe became the team's Technical Director.[4] He left McLaren in 2013.
Lowe moved to theMercedes Formula One team as Executive Director on 3 June 2013.[5][6]
In 2015 Lowe was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Academy of Engineering. He and his elder brother ProfessorMichael Lowe were the first brothers to both be elected as aFellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[7]
On 10 January 2017, Mercedes announced that Lowe had left the team, and entered a period ofgarden leave.[8]
Lowe returned to Williams as Chief Technical Officer on 16 March 2017.[9] He replacedPat Symonds, who left the team at the end of 2016. Alongside his technical position, Lowe became a shareholder in the team.[10] The Williams cars under his supervision, FW41 and FW42, turned out to be largely uncompetitive and relegated Williams to the bottom of the Constructors' Championship in 2018 and 2019. On 6 March 2019 it was announced that Lowe would be taking a leave of absence for personal reasons.[11] On 25 June 2019, Lowe left Williams with immediate effect.[12]
Drivers' World Championships
Constructors' World Championships
Lowe is the co-founder ofZero, a British technology company that develops and manufactures whole-blend synthetic, non-biological, fossil-free fuels – petrol (gasoline), diesel and jet fuel. The process uses just carbon dioxide taken from the air and renewable hydrogen made from water. Lowe calls this process petrosynthesis. Synthetic fuels, which can be made at scale, can be dropped straight into the existing engines of cars, aircraft, commercial and agricultural vehicles, allowing them to run sustainably in exactly the same way and with the same performance as they do onfossil fuels, without the need for any engine modification. They eliminate greenhouse gas accumulation through the creation of a circular carbon cycle, and so eliminate the need for fossil fuels in global industries such as aviation.
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Lowe is married to screen actress, Anna Danshina. He has two children from a previous relationship: Noah Kelly and Finty Kelly.
His brother,Michael Lowe, is a British mechanical engineer.
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