Xevi Pujolar is one of the most experienced operational leaders in Formula One, currently serving as Head of Track Engineering at Audi F1 Team. He has also held senior engineering roles at Williams, Jaguar, Toro Rosso and Sauber, working with some of the best drivers in the sport. With over three decades of experience in motorsports, Xevi shares insights into his varied and extensive career in Formula One.
Starting his motorsports career in karting, Xevi was a chassis, engine setup & development engineer for Genikart, Team Arisco and Christian Boudon before becoming a Race Engineer for Nissan. Making a mark in the feeder series, he became a Race Engineer for Red Bull Junior Team F3000. Joining Formula One in 2002, Xevi was an Assistant Race Engineer for Eddie Irvine at Jaguar. He served as a Race Engineer for Williams F1 Team, where he worked with leading drivers including Juan Pablo Montoya, Ralf Schumacher and Mark Webber. Following a brief stint as Bruno Senna’s Race Engineer at Hispania F1 Racing, he returned to Williams as Pastor Maldonado’s Race Engineer and later as Chief Race Engineer. In 2014, he joined Toro Rosso as a Senior Race Engineer, working with Max Verstappen in his early Formula 1 journey. Xevi has been part of the Sauber group for nearly a decade, during which he has assisted in the transition from Alfa Romeo to Audi F1 in 2026.
Xevi has been a key architect of the transformation that took the team from near-collapse to sixth in the Constructors Championship and built the operational foundation for Audi's entry as a works manufacturer. Outside of the grid, he is co-developing Pole Position OS in partnership with Flow Insider, translating F1 cognitive and organisational principles into elite business team performance. Xevi is also the Managing Director of RaceMode Performance GmbH, consulting for motorsports and high-performance teams.
Translating sports expertise into lessons for various industries, Xevi is a motivational speaker who delivers talks on performing under pressure, organisational change and team communication, using real-world examples from Formula One. If you are looking for an influential motorsports speaker, hire Xevi for your next event.
Xevi Pujolar's official speaking topics are listed below:
Decisions Under Pressure
The cognitive frameworks F1 engineers use to make high-stakes calls in real time with incomplete information, and how those same principles apply to leadership teams operating in their own version of that environment.
Building a Team That Performs at the Ceiling
What it takes to coordinate experts, data, and execution under conditions that leave no margin for error. The architecture of trust, communication, and role clarity that makes elite team performance possible.
Leading Through Transformation
Inside the Sauber to Audi transition. What it takes to hold performance steady through organizational change, leadership turbulence, and external pressure.
Pole Position OS
The operating system for elite team performance, developed inside one of the most demanding environments on earth. The principles and practices that translate directly to high-performance business teams.
- 2026 – Managing Director of RaceMode Performance GmbH
- 2023 – F1 Racing Director at Sauber Group
- 2016 – Head of Trackside Engineering at Alfa Romeo Racing
- 2014 – Senior Race Engineer at Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 Team
- 2013 – Chief Race Engineer at Williams F1 Team
- 2011 – Pastor Maldonado F1 Race Engineer at Williams F1 Team
- 2009 – Bruno Senna Race Engineer at Hispania F1 Racing
- 2002 – F1 Race Engineer for Williams F1
- 2002 – Eddie Irvine Assistant Race Engineer for Jaguar F1 Racing
- 2000 – F3000 Race Engineer for Red Bull Junior Team
- 1998 – Race Engineer for F-Nissan
- 1997 – Chassis, Engine Setup & Development Engineer for Christian Boudon
- 1996 – Chassis, Engine Setup & Development Engineer for Team Arisco
- 1995 – Chassis, Engine Setup & Development Engineer for Genikart
- 1995 – Graduated with BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Universitat de Girona
- Co-Creator of Pole Position OS
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