Pat Frye (1March, 96417th) was born in Sheburton, England. After trying several engineering courses, Frye became an intern in Thornemi at 198 1, and then completed the training in electronics at London Institute of Technology. Although Frye's education was not glamorous, he was very talented and immediately joined the Thorne missile project. However, in 1987, Frye left the company in order to join in motor racing.

In his spare time, Frye always likes to make motorcycle suspension systems. So, he joined the R&D department of Benetton Team in witney, where he participated in the research and development of active suspension system, and the supervisor was Pat Symonds. After that, he transferred to the testing team. When John Barnard accepted this department, he transferred Frye to the R&D department in Godalming. 199 1 year, Barnard left Benetton and Frye returned to the testing team. 1992 became the competition engineer of Martin Brende.

1993, Giorgio Ascanelli, a former Benetton colleague, persuaded Frye to switch to McLaren. Frye originally planned to continue to study the active suspension system and run the McLaren test team. But before the 1994 season, the FIA banned the active suspension system, so Frye came to the competition team as an engineer. From 65438 to 0995, Frye became a race engineer in hakkinen and returned to the test team of McLaren one year later. At this time, there were rumors that Frye was in contact with Ferrari. At that time, former Williams team engineer david brown came to McLaren, Steve Haram was an engineer in hakkinen, and Tim Goss had taken over his original test team engineer, so Frye lost his position.

1997, he renewed his contract with McLaren and became an engineer in Coulthard for four years. 200 1 plays the role of strategic coordination and is responsible for 2 vehicles. In 2002, Frye was promoted to be the chief engineer of competition research and development, mainly responsible for MP4-20 and MP4-22 MP4-24.

On 20th1May14th, the team announced that Frye had left McLaren. On June 2 1, Gazzetta dello Sport broke the news that Frye would join Ferrari, and Mercedes-Benz and Red Bull also expressed interest in him. On June 22nd, Ferrari officially confirmed Frye's joining. On July 1 day, Frye will take the post of Assistant Technical Director at Ferrari, and Frye will report to Technical Director aldo Costa.

On April 20th, 2002, Frye married Kate Harbour. His wife is mainly engaged in catering editing in racing catering industry, and Coulthard attended his wedding.