Dr. Eric Warren
Dr. Eric S. Warren has had a distinguished 25+ year career in motorsports. He earned his BS (1991), MS (1993), and PhD (1997) in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University through the support of NASA-Langley Research Center. In 1997, his career in motorsports began when he accepted the chief aerodynamicist role with NASCAR's Kranefuss-Haas Racing.
Over the next three decades, Dr. Warren has held transformative technical and management roles at Penske-Kranefuss Racing, Evernham Motorsports, Michael Waltrip Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, and Richard Childress Racing serving in various roles as the chief aerodynamicist, chief engineer, technical director, vice president and chief technology officer.
During his tenure, he led these organizations in the adoption of many forms of advanced engineering tools in areas such as aerodynamic development, computational fluid dynamics, vehicle dynamic simulation, driver-in-the-loop simulators, structural design, product life cycle management, rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing, race engineering and the application of real-time data analytics to race strategy prediction.
In 2020, after an 8-year tenure at RCR as the vice president and chief technology officer, Dr. Warren joined General Motors as the Director of Motorsports Competition NASCAR Programs.