Jost Capito (53) is to head Volkswagen Motorsport effective
01 May 2012. He takes over from Kris Nissen (51), who will support his successor
during the transition phase and subsequently assist the Group in an advisory
capacity.
Jost Capito moves to the Volkswagen Group from Ford Motor
Company USA. He has decades of experience in motorsport; among other things, he
was involved in Formula 1 and was also co-pilot and winner in the truck
category of the Paris-Dakar Rally.
The engineering graduate began his career in 1984 as a
development engineer for BMW’s high-performance engines. Capito joined Porsche
in 1989, first heading the Porsche Carrera Cup Organisation and later
overseeing all Porsche brand racing championship campaigns. He held executive
posts at Sauber Petronas Engineering from 1996 to 2001 and was Chief Operating
Officer of the Sauber Red Bull Formula 1 team from 1998. Capito moved to Ford
at the end of 2001 where he latterly held responsibility for Ford’s global
performance vehicle business and for motorsports strategy. One of his
achievements includes the development of the Ford Focus RS.
Kris Nissen (51) has been Director of Volkswagen Motorsport
since 2003 and won important motorsport victories for Volkswagen during his
tenure. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Member of the Board of Management of the
Volkswagen brand with responsibility for ‘Development’, thanked Nissen for his
achievements: “Mr. Nissen has taken Volkswagen Motorsport a long way forward
and led the Motorsport team during the most successful phase in its history so
far. He was instrumental in Volkswagen’s double victory at the 2009 Dakar Rally
and helped write motorsport history with the one-two-three podium finishes in
2010 and 2011.”
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