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Former Haas Performance Engineer Laura Muller is all set to become Esteban Ocon's race engineer from the 2025 F1 season onwards. With her appointment, she will be the first female race engineer of a driver in the sport since its inception in 1950.
Muller graduated from the Technical University of Munich in 2015 where she majored in Automotive Engineering. She completed her Masters from the same university two years later in the same discipline.
Here are five things to know (from her LinkedIn profile) about Esteban Ocon's new race engineer.
#5 Muller has been associated with Haas since the 2022 regulations
Laura Muller arrived at the Haas F1 team in 2022, right from the onset of the current regulations. She joined the team as a performance engineer and has been in the role for three years before her promotion in 2025.
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She joined from Manthey Racing GmbH, a World Endurance Racing, Deutsche Tourenwagen Series, and GT2 European Series team under Porsche SE.
#4 She has a decade of experience in motorsport
While completing her master's, Muller joined Phoenix Racing GmbH as an intern in 2014. She then worked as an Engineer Formula Renault 2.0 at Josef Kaufmann Racing in 2016. After spending two years in the role, Muller moved to Hero Motocorp in Brazil to work as a data engineer.
In 2024, Laura Muller marked 10 years in motorsport, starting as an intern with Audi's LMS team. Next year, she will be a race engineer at the pinnacle of motorsport.
#3 Muller worked in World Endurance Racing
Muller joined the Endurance Racing series in 2019. She moved to WEC to work with DKR Engineering and worked in both LMP2, LMP3, DTM, and GT3 segments until 2021.
#2 She worked with Sophia Floersch
Laura Muller, one of the pioneers for women in the field of automotive engineering, worked with compatriot and racing driver Sophia Floersch. Muller and Floersch worked together when the former was in the DTM series.
#1 She wanted to be an F1 driver and compete against Michael Schumacher
In an interview with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine in 2023, Laura Muller shared that she wanted to be a Formula 1 driver when she was young. Not only that, she wanted to compete against the seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.
"As a child, I wanted to be an F1 driver and be the first woman to compete against Michael Schumacher," she said (via GPFans.com).
It will be interesting to see how Laura Muller pairs with Esteban Ocon to take the Haas F1 team to new heights.
