Fry Joins Porsche Penske in Team Engineering Expansion

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Former BMW M Team RLL technical director Brandon Fry has joined Porsche Penske Motorsport in a newly created lead race engineer role, as part of an expansion within its engineering department.

Fry, who spent six seasons with the Bobby Rahal-co-owned operation, largely in IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship competition, departed RLL late last year.

With a season now under their belts with the LMDh platform, Porsche Penske managing director Jonathan Diuguid explained the need to increase its engineering staff, both in the WeatherTech Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship, for 2024.

“A lot of the teams were just trying to get the cars on track,” Diuguid said of last year. “I think after a season of racing, we have visibility to what staffing levels we need to support the cars and appropriate running.

“We’ve added engineering personnel in all of our racing programs, WEC and IMSA.

“As part of that change we have one or two performance engineers and we’ve added some engineering management to the team.

“Brandon Fry is joining our team as lead race engineering on our IMSA program so he’ll be there supporting the two race engineers that ran the cars last season and add some capacity to make sure we are covering all of the bases.

“[His role will be] helping manage the people in the background and the performance engineers to help make sure we get maximum performance out of the car.”

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