Porsche's former head of factory motorsport Pascal Zurlinden has joined Multimatic as director of performance engineering for its special vehicle operations division.
The Thetford-based engineering firm, most famous for its work with Ford Performance, said Zurlinden’s “knowledge, expertise and experience will be an important asset” to the expanding division which specialises in high-performance vehicle development and runs Multimatic’s motorsport programmes. He will report to Multimatic vice president and industry stalwart Larry Holt.
Having joined Audi Sport in 2008, Zurlinden moved to Porsche in 2014, working as an engineer on its world-beating LMP1 programme, before taking the reins of the factory GT programme where he took Porsche to success in all of the blue riband GT races globally. He assumed responsibility for all of Porsche’s factory racing from 2019.
Zurlinden has previously worked with Multimatic in the development of both Porsche and Audi’s LMDh race cars, in which Multimatic is the chosen chassis constructor partner.
