Born on 14 April 1973, Toni Cuquerella is one of those Formula 1 figures whose CV makes more sense the longer you look at it. He worked in the sport across very different environments, from Super Aguri and BMW Sauber to HRT and Ferrari, before becoming a familiar television voice in Spain.
Antonio “Toni” Cuquerella was born in Gandia, Valencia, on 14 April 1973, and his route through Formula 1 was far from the standard one-team rise. Instead, he built a career across the sport’s full economic spectrum, which is usually a good way to learn what really matters once the glamour is removed.
Cuquerella reached F1 with Super Aguri, then moved to BMW Sauber, where he became race engineer to Robert Kubica. That alone would make for a respectable career, but he later joined HRT and was promoted to technical director in 2012, taking on one of the hardest jobs in the paddock at one of its most fragile teams.
After HRT disappeared, Cuquerella eventually returned to F1 with Ferrari in 2015 before leaving ahead of the 2017 season. He then moved into television, first with Movistar and later with DAZN, where his mix of engineering detail and plain-speaking analysis made him a natural fit. Not every former engineer can explain Formula 1 without making it sound like a gearbox manual. Cuquerella can.
