Peter Bonnington

Peter Bonnington, also known as Bono,^[2] is a British Formula One engineer. He was the senior race engineer for Lewis Hamilton at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport Formula One team.^[3]

Peter Bonnington
Bonnington at the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix
Born	1974 or 1975 (age 49–50)[1] 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

Bonnington started his Formula 1 career as a data engineer with Jordan Grand Prix in 2004.^[4] During his time with the Silverstone team he worked alongside the likes of Giorgio Pantano and Timo Glock.^[5] 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.^[6][7]

After a stint as Michael Schumacher's performance engineer at Mercedes, he became his race engineer replacing the departing Mark Slade in September 2011.^[8] 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. He is now race engineer for rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

In his current role as Head of Trackside Performance,^[9] 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.^[10][2]