Manor have announced that they have secured the services of Pat Fry as a engineering consultant as they usher in the Mercedes powered era for the team.
The team said in a statement: "Manor Racing is pleased to announce that Pat Fry has joined the team to provide engineering consultancy as it gets its 2016 challenge underway."
"During that time, the team will benefit from Pat’s considerable experience in various race engineering and technical leadership roles - with Benetton, McLaren and Scuderia Ferrari - to help develop its engineering capabilities."
The team's racing director Dave Ryan said, "We are extremely fortunate to have Pat on board to help us hit the ground running with our exciting new technical package."
"The aim is to bring performance to the car with effect from the Barcelona tests, then translate that to the race track in Melbourne, to ensure we make the strongest possible start to 2016 and have a good basis for development in the early part of the season," added Ryan.
Fry rose through the ranks of McLaren, where he began in 1993 as an active suspension specialist. Before his departure from the Woking outfit in 2010 he was the team's chief engineer of Race Development.
He joined Ferrari in 2010 and rapidly rose through the ranks to become the team's director of chassis, in a trio of technical chiefs at Maranello in the wake of their failure to win the F1 title in 2010 which cost Chris Dyer his position within the reds.
In the 'coup d'Maranello' of 2014, which resulted in a total change of senior management, Fry departed as the new management reshuffled the Italian team.
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