Panayiotis "Ben" Agathangelou (; born 4 November 1971 in Hackney, London) is a Cypriot-British automotive engineer, specialising in aerodynamics, who currently works for the

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Career

Agathangelou studied aeronautics and astronautics at the

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before joining the

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F1 team in 1994, where he stayed for three years. After a year at Tyrrell, he moved to

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and helped to design the

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test car, which was ultimately never raced partly due to the sudden death of

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, the project's technical director. He was hired by Benetton in 1999, before moving to

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two years later. He designed the team's 2003 car, the R3, and the first

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cars after the team was sold to the drinks company in 2005. He left the team in 2007 after a personnel shake-up caused by the arrival of

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. He returned to Formula One in 2010 after being recruited by the new Hispania Racing F1 Team, and then moved to

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. He took up the position of chief aerodynamicist at the new

in March 2015.

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* * * * * Living people Alumni of the University of Southampton Formula One designers British motorsport designers Aerodynamicists 1971 births English people of Greek descent McLaren people Haas F1 Team Benetton Formula Red Bull Racing {{UK-autoracing-bio-stub