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Peter Bonnington
Bonnington at the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix
Born	1974 or 1975 (age 49–50) England
Other names	Bono
Occupation	Formula One race engineer
Employer	Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
Known for	Formula One engineer
Title	Head of Race Engineering

Peter Bonnington, also known as Bono, is a British Formula One engineer. He was the senior race engineer for Lewis Hamilton at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One team.

Bonnington started his Formula 1 career as a data engineer with Jordan Grand Prix in 2004. During his time with the Silverstone team he worked alongside the likes of Giorgio Pantano and Timo Glock. He then joined the Honda team as an understudy to long time race engineer Andrew Shovlin and therefore became Jenson Button’s performance engineer. Bonnington remained with the team as it transitioned into Brawn GP, guiding Button to his maiden World Championship in 2009.

After a stint as Michael Schumacher's performance engineer at Mercedes, he became his race engineer replacing the departing Mark Slade in September 2011. After Schumacher left the Brackley team at the end of 2012, Bonnington became senior race engineer for Lewis Hamilton, a position he remained in until Hamilton left the Mercedes team at the end of the 2024 championship.

In his current role as senior race engineer, he is responsible for all trackside communications to the driver and the set up of the Formula One car. During his time in this position, he has engineered Hamilton to six of his seven world championships and is widely regarded as being one of the most skilled race engineers in Formula One.

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v t e Mercedes-Benz in Formula One
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (2010–present) Ownership Mercedes-Benz Group (33.3%) Toto Wolff (33.3%) Ineos (33.3%) Executive management Toto Wolff (CEO & team principal) Ola Källenius (Head of Mercedes-Benz) Current personnel James Allison Peter Bonnington Simon Cole Ron Meadows Jarrod Murphy John Owen Simone Resta Markus Schäfer [de] Britta Seeger Andrew Shovlin Hywel Thomas [ja] Geoff Willis Former personnel Bob Bell Loïc Bigois Eric Blandin Ross Brawn Aldo Costa Andy Cowell Jock Clear Tad Czapski Jérôme d'Ambrosio Mark Ellis Mike Elliott Nick Fry Thomas Fuhr Norbert Haug Ben Hodgkinson [ja] Jürgen Hubbert Niki Lauda Paddy Lowe Tony Ross Wolfgang Schattling Loïc Serra Mark Slade James Vowles Craig Wilson [ja] Thomas Weber Ian Wright Dieter Zetsche 2025 Race drivers 12. Andrea Kimi Antonelli 63. George Russell 2025 Test and reserve drivers Frederik Vesti Simulator drivers Jake Hughes Anthony Davidson Junior Team drivers James Anagnostiadis Andrea Kimi Antonelli Kenzo Craigie Cui Yuanpu Luna Fluxá Doriane Pin Alex Powell Frederik Vesti World Champions Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg Ambassadors Nico Rosberg Esteban Gutiérrez Susie Wolff Notable drivers   Valtteri Bottas   Michael Schumacher Drivers' titles 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Constructors' titles 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Formula One cars W01 W02 W03 W04 W05 W06 W07 W08 W09 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14 W15 Engine division Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Related Mercedes-Benz Group Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-AMG
Daimler-Benz AG (1954–1955) Personnel Fritz Nallinger Alfred Neubauer Max Sailer Rudolf Uhlenhaut World Champions Juan Manuel Fangio Notable drivers   Hans Herrmann   Karl Kling   Hermann Lang   Stirling Moss   André Simon   Piero Taruffi Drivers' titles 1954 1955 Formula One cars W196 Related Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows
World Championships with Mercedes-Benz engines Drivers' titles 1954 1955 1998 1999 2008 2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Constructors' titles 1998 2009 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2024 Related Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Mercedes engine customers' Grand Prix results Mercedes-AMG Italics indicate factory team.

v t e Brawn GP
Founder Ross Brawn Personnel Phil Arnaboldi Loïc Bigois Peter Bonnington Jock Clear Simon Cole Russell Cooley Jacky Eeckelaert Nick Fry Ron Meadows John Owen Andrew Shovlin James Vowles Graham Watson Craig Wilson [ja] Ian Wright Jörg Zander World Champions Jenson Button Other driver Rubens Barrichello Drivers' titles 2009 Constructors' titles 2009 Formula One cars BGP 001

v t e Honda in Formula One
Notable personnel (2015-2021) Yasuhisa Arai Yasuaki Asaki [ja] Yusuke Hasegawa Toyoharu Tanabe [ja] Masashi Yamamoto [ja] (2000-2008) Mariano Alperin [ja] Loïc Bigois Ross Brawn Jock Clear Gil de Ferran Jacky Eeckelaert Mark Ellis Nick Fry Takeo Fukui Takeo Kiuchi Simon Lacey Ron Meadows Shuhei Nakamoto John Owen Nicolò Petrucci Andrew Shovlin Otmar Szafnauer James Vowles Yasuhiro Wada Graham Watson Geoff Willis Craig Wilson [ja] Ian Wright Jörg Zander (1998-1999) Ben Agathangelou Tim Densham Harvey Postlethwaite Jos Verstappen (1983-1992) Osamu Goto [ja] Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshitoshi Sakurai [ja] (1964-1968) Soichiro Honda Shoichiro Irimajiri Nobuhiko Kawamoto Yoshio Nakamura [ja] Notable drivers Rubens Barrichello Ronnie Bucknum Jenson Button Richie Ginther Jo Schlesser John Surtees Cars RA270 RA271 RA272 RA273 RA300 RA301 RA302 RC100 RA099 RA106 RA107 RA108 RA109K [ja]
As an engine manufacturer World Champions Nelson Piquet Ayrton Senna Alain Prost Max Verstappen Constructors' titles 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Drivers' titles 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 2021

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