Reigning Formula E champion, Pascal Wehrlein, will have a new engineer next season after the one that assisted him to his second world title last season exited his position recently.
Robert Sattler is believed to have given notice of his decision to leave the team immediately after the London E-Prix in August, is still presently with the company, although Formula E Notebook understands he is expected to move on to a new role at Nissan shortly.
Brazilian, Sattler, who joined Porsche a year ago, is set to be replaced by Maxime Menneglier, who joined Porsche from Envision where he worked as a Performance Engineer last autumn.
Sattler had vast experience in motorsport having previously worked in Formula E with NIO after he had engineered Gary Paffett to the 2019 DTM title and also worked in F1 with Force India.
It is known that Sattler (pictured below) and Wehrlein got on very well within the team but there were suggestions last season of some pure engineering aspects that they may have had some differing opinions on.
Together, the pair were successful with Wehrlein taking his second title in three seasons, Porsche claiming a second consecutive manufacturers title and Wehrlein claiming three wins during a season in which he collated three wins, although his points ratio was much less than his first title season in 2024.
Nissan recently lost former Norman Nato engineer, Jules Chambon, who has joined the Lando Norris fronted LN4 Fusion initiative as F2 and F3 programme director. Chambon will be replaced by former Citroen/MSG Formula E engineer, Pierre Paul Ferry.
Who is Wehrlein’s new engineer?
The engineer who will take over and become Pascal Wehrlein’s closest engineering confidante, Maxime Menneglier, has significant experience in Formula E after a three season stint at Envision Racing where he worked with Nick Cassidy, Robin Frijns and Sebastien Buemi.
Prior to that Menneglier worked for Red Bull Racing and the Aston Martin F1 team as a simulator engineer, and also had a stint at Pirelli as a trackside engineer.
He cut his racing teeth with little known sportscar entrant Pierre Bruneau before filling out junior roles at Carlin Motorsport in F3 where he worked with 2023 Formula E champion, Jake Dennis.
Porsche has largely had stability in its engineering resources through its time in Formula E with Marius Meier-Diedrich looking after Antonio Felix da Costa for his three seasons with Porsche before transferring over to Nico Mueller last season.
Wehrlein has worked with Fabrice Roussell and Kyle Wilson-Clarke prior to Sattler last season. Roussell is currently an engineering and performance consultant in the motorsport industry, while Wilson-Clarke engineered Taylor Barnard at DS Penske last season and is expected to work for Fortescue Zero for the upcoming campaign.
