) is a former engineer with the Minardi

Minardi

Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans...

 and Scuderia Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team...

 Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 teams.

While studying mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

 at Bologna University, Tredozi began working for Minardi as an assistant race engineer. Between 1988 and 1996, he engineered for Pierluigi Martini

Pierluigi Martini

Pierluigi Martini is an Italian former racing driver.He participated in 124 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on September 9, 1984 substituting for Ayrton Senna at the Toleman team...

, Adrián Campos

Adrián Campos

Adrián Campos Suñer is a retired Formula One driver from Spain. He participated in 21 Grands Prix, debuting on April 12, 1987, without scoring a championship point. He later moved into team management, with more success...

, Christian Fittipaldi

Christian Fittipaldi

Christian Fittipaldi is a Brazilian racing driver who has competed in various forms of motorsport including Formula One, Champ Car and NASCAR...

, Fabrizio Barbazza

Fabrizio Barbazza

Fabrizio Barbazza is an Italian former Formula One driver who raced for the AGS and Minardi teams.-Career:...

 and Pedro Lamy

Pedro Lamy

José Pedro Mourão Lamy Viçoso, OIH, better known as Pedro Lamy , is a professional racing driver from Portugal. He is notable for being the first Portuguese driver to score a point in a World Championship event, in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, for Minardi...

. In 1997, following the departure of Aldo Costa

Aldo Costa

Aldo Costa is an Italian engineer and former Technical Director of the Ferrari Formula One team.Costa was born in Parma. After school, he continued studying and graduated from the University of Bologna in mechanical engineering....

 to Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari

Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing....

, he was appointed as the team's technical coordinator. Responsible for both the design and production areas as well as for on-track technical management, he stayed in that role under technical director Gustav Brunner

Gustav Brunner

Gustav Brunner is an Austrian Formula One designer and engineer. He was born on 12 September 1950 , and got his start in racing car design at the German-based constructor McNamara. He first entered F1 in a brief spell working for the ATS team in 1978, before designing cars for Formula Two and...

. When Brunner moved to Toyota

Toyota F1

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 in 2001, Tredozi became technical director, where he controlled the day-to-day operation of the drawing office as well as the technical staff. When Minardi was bought and turned into Scuderia Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team...

, he stayed on until he was replaced by Alex Hitzinger

Alex Hitzinger

Alex Hitzinger is a German engineer, recently 'Head of Advanced Technologies' for Red Bull F1 and Scuderia Toro Rosso....

 in mid-2006.

Married to Claudia, he has one son, Tommaso. His main hobby is cycling

Cycling

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