They both share the same name: Peter Weston. One is an American photographer that Ansell Adams said was "one of the few creative artists of the day," The other is the Technical Director for Dyson Racing. If you ask the drivers who have worked with Peter Weston, they would not hesitate to call him every bit an artist. It is a unique and rare art form to take a driver's verbal feedback on a race car's dynamics and translate it into speed on the track.

Peter's career with teams like Lotus, March, Lola and Pacific Racing started in 1981 when he saw his first British Grand Prix. The die was cast. He raced open wheel cars for two years and campaigned a Fiat 131 saloon race car for four years. He knows from experience how to interpret a driver's hand gestures on what the car is doing.

It was during this period that he applied to March Engineering. After less than a year at March, he started working on what soon became his area of expertise: designing the back half of race cars – rear suspension, transmission, brakes and wings. Two years later he was the race engineer for Gary Brabham in the Formula 3000 series, only one step removed from Formula One. He made it to the top rung two years later with Lotus. While at Lotus, he was in charge of gear box design in addition to being the race engineer for Johnny Herbert in 1992 and testing engineer with Herbert and Alex Zanardi in 1993 and 1994.

"F1 is the epitome of engineering in racing," comments Peter. "But too often you find that a F1 designer has abused his access to bottomless pits of money by designing a part that is far too complicated and made of unnecessarily expensive materials...because it can be. I derive pride in my work from achieving the same goal as the F1 designer, but at a fraction of the cost. A simple, cost effective product is often the result of long hard sessions in a thought coma."

It was back to Formula 3000 in 1996 with Pacific Racing and the next year he was the first employee hired by Martin Birrane after he bought Lola. He became the project leader for the 98/10 Le Mans sportscar. The car won six races from pole its first year.

During his five years at Lola, he got to know Rob Dyson, and when the call came to work on the other side of the Atlantic in 2002, it was a can't-pass-up opportunity to race engineer the cars he helped design. In 2008, he was named Technical Director for the team. "I am proud to be a small part of the team's ability to compete at the top level of sportscar racing. They have such a complete history and no other team can match their record and their depth of experience."