Colin Kolles

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Doctor Colin Kolles (born 1967) is the Managing Director of the Force India F1 Team. He is from Ingolstadt, Germany.

Kolles qualified as a dentist, which was the family business - although "evidence" that his father was dentist to former Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu[1] is not factual - the cited article being a spoof (re: F1 Racing June 2007). He later entered racing by running Kolles Racing and TME racing, teams in the Formula Three Euroseries. He was appointed as Managing Director of the team (then known as Jordan) by its new owner, Alex Shnaider, on January 19, 2005.[2]

Despite receiving some criticism in 2005 for his "hard-headed" approach, Kolles is still the Managing Director of the team, presiding over the launch of the Midland M16 chassis before the 2006 season began.[3] Following the team's takeover by Spyker, he remained as managing director.

Despite running a Formula One team, Kolles has still been called upon to use his dentistry skills. Before the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix, he had to perform dental surgery on driver Tiago Monteiro, who was suffering from toothache severe enough to potentially keep him out of the race.[4] He also performed a similar procedure on Midland's other driver Christijan Albers at the 2006 French Grand Prix.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Mole:270.
  2. ^ Midland Group website.
  3. ^ "MF1 team boss Colin Kolles on 2006 and the new M16...".
  4. ^ "Jordan overcome teething troubles".
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