14 Facts About Craig Pollock

Craig Pollock was born on February 20,1956 and is a British businessman.

Craig Pollock was the manager of 1997 World Champion Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve throughout his top-level career.

Craig Pollock worked as a teacher in the late 1970s becoming director of sport at the College Beausoleil in Villars, Switzerland.

The meeting at the circuit led to three meetings in Switzerland when Villeneuve was pursuing the possibility of Craig Pollock managing his career.

Craig Pollock used this winning streak to negotiate Villeneuve's entry into F1 with the Williams Racing team where he won the championship in his second year, 1997.

Craig Pollock convinced BAT to invest in the F1 project, using his old contacts from Imperial Tobacco, now working for BAT in the UK.

In 1998, Craig Pollock purchased Tyrrell with his partners and ended up running the team in 1998, while at the same time building British American Racing from a Greenfield site, Craig Pollock signed his close friend and driver to be team leader.

Craig Pollock spent his time working to improve the team so much that he successfully negotiated Honda's return to F1 with BAR.

Craig Pollock managed Villeneuve through to the end of his Formula career.

Kalkhoven suggested that they enter the CART series and Craig Pollock negotiated the purchase of the assets of PacWest Racing CART team and entered the CART championship for the 2003 series.

Craig Pollock managed this only for one season and requested that Kalkhoven purchase his shares to manage this team himself.

In May 2011, Craig Pollock announced his creation of Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d'Energie, an engineering company which was set up to design and supply Power Units to F1 as an independent supplier.

Craig Pollock became the sole investor in PURE SA and due to the lack of outside investment decided to close the project in 2014, having terminated the full F1 power unit design.

PURE SA was liquidated the same year and Craig Pollock retained the intellectual property to the F1 power unit designs.