Paul Crooks (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paul Crooks is a former Formula One engineer.Crooks began his career as an apprentice aeronautical engineer when he was 17 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment based in Farnborough. He spent five years there before joining RAE at the age of 22. For the next five years he worked as a detail designer on aerospace projects, working alongside Frank Coppuck. From there, he got a job with Toleman Group Motorsport (later Benetton Formula1, now Renault F1 as a detail designer. He worked under Rory Byrne for the next six years, before moving up to chief composite design engineer in 1983.