Delphine Biscaye

Delphine Biscaye is a French mechanical engineer and designer who serves as team and logistics manager of the Venturi Formula E team. Coming from a background where none of her family had any involvement or interest in motor racing, she studied at French Institute of Advanced Mechanics. Biscaye was employed by Williams Grand Prix Engineering on an intermittent basis at its kinetic energy recovery system research and development department and later helped in the design of the FW31's suspension. She travelled back to France after she could not get full-time employment with Williams and joined Venturi Automobiles in December 2009 as a research and development engineer and CAD designer on its sports car prototype programme.

In early 2011, Biscaye was made project manager of the all-electric four-wheel drive Buckeye Bullet project and was later assigned to the Antarctica programme as a designer in July 2012. Venturi assigned her to its Formula E racing operation as logistics officer at the start of the 2015/16 season. Biscaye was appointed permanent team and logistics manager from the 2016/17 season. Her time in the position has seen Venturi establish partnerships with motorsports specialists HWA GmbH and car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen.

Early life and education Biscaye was raised in a small village in France. She is one of three children in her family and has two brothers. Biscaye came from a background where none of her family were neither involved nor interested in motor racing. She got interested in the industry through watching Formula One and rallying. During an interview with the lecturers of the Clermont-Ferrand-based mechanical engineering school French Institute of Advanced Mechanics (now SIGMA Clemont) in 2005, she was told a job in motor sport was not feasible since other interviewees had the same ambition and jobs in the industry were scarce. During her time at Williams, Biscaye worked in the team's design office to help develop its kinetic energy recovery system technology in their research and development department and then focused on the suspension for the FW31 chassis. From July 2012 until 2016, she was assigned to work in the Antarctica programme as a designer, an electric vehicle intended to provide scientists access to research zones considered to be un-reachable with internal combustion machinery. During her time, Venturi established partnerships with motorsports specialists HWA GmbH and car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen.