Patrick Allen Lowe

Lowe attended Sevenoaks School from 1976 until 1980 and graduated from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1984 with a degree in Engineering.

In 1987 Lowe joined Williams as Joint Head of Electronics, spending six years at the team. He oversaw the development of active suspension, a system that helped Nigel Mansell and Williams win the 1992 Formula One season Drivers' and Constructors' titles.

Lowe moved to McLaren in 1993 as Head of Research and Development. He is credited with helping Mika Häkkinen defeat Michael Schumacher, contributing to McLaren's Constructors' title in 1998 and Häkkinen's Drivers' titles in 1998 and 1999. He led that department for eight years, then in 2001 was appointed Chief Engineer Systems Development, focused on the race programme. In 2005 he became Engineering Director, responsible for all engineering departments. The McLaren MP4-20 won 10 Grands Prix in that period but lost both championships. In 2008 Lowe led Lewis Hamilton to his first Drivers' title. In January 2011 he became the team's Technical Director, a role he held until leaving McLaren in 2013.

Lowe joined Mercedes as Executive Director on 3 June 2013. He has been described as having "laid the foundations for the team's crushing dominance of the V6 turbo era" and as "a key architect of Mercedes' Formula 1 domination". Under his tenure Mercedes won Lewis Hamilton's 2014 and 2015 Drivers' titles, Nico Rosberg's 2016 Drivers' title, and three consecutive Constructors' titles; the team won 51 of 59 Grands Prix, took 56 of 59 pole positions, and led 84 percent of racing laps. In 2015 Lowe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He and his brother Michael Lowe became the first brothers both elected as Fellows of that academy. Mercedes announced on 10 January 2017 that Lowe had left the team and entered a period of garden leave.

As part of the arrangement that brought Valtteri Bottas to Mercedes, Lowe returned to Williams as Chief Technical Officer on 16 March 2017, replacing Pat Symonds. He also became a shareholder in the team, making him its most senior figure. The FW41 and FW42 produced under his supervision proved uncompetitive; Williams finished at the bottom of the Constructors' Championship in both 2018 and 2019 and missed 2019 pre-season testing. Lowe took a leave of absence on 6 March 2019 and left Williams with immediate effect on 25 June 2019.

Lowe co-founded Zero Petroleum Limited in 2020, serving as its CEO. The British company develops and manufactures whole-blend synthetic, fossil-free fuels — including petrol, diesel, and jet fuel — using carbon dioxide extracted from the air and renewable hydrogen produced from water, a process Lowe calls petrosynthesis. The fuels are designed as drop-in replacements for fossil-based fuels, requiring no engine modification, and aim to eliminate greenhouse gas accumulation through a circular carbon cycle.

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