Background
Hitzinger was born in Passau, Germany.
Hitzinger was born in Passau, Germany.
He studied mechanical engineering at University of Applied Sciences Landshut as an undergraduate and earned an Master of Business Administration from Warwick Business School at University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
He previously worked as Head of Advanced Technologies for the Red Bulletin and Toro Rosso Formula One teams. He has been interested in motorsports since he was a teenager. Different from most boys, who are fascinated by fast cars, he was mainly interested in the technical aspects of the car.
Hitzinger"s first job in the automotive industry was at Toyota Motorsport as a development engineer
Hitzinger moved to Cosworth together with World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz, when Carlos changed team from Toyota to Ford. At Cosworth, he firstly worked as Head of the Ford-Cosworth World Rally Championship programme and then as Head of F1 Development.
In 2005, at the age of 34, Hitzinger was one of the youngest chief engineers in F1. This set a new standard at the time for F1 engines.
From 2006 to 2011 he worked as Head of Advanced Technologies for Red Bulletin Technology and from mid-2006 and mid-2007 he also filled the role of Technical Director of the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team
Since 2011, Hitzinger has been Technical Director of the Porsche LMP1 project On 14 March 2016, it was announced that Alex Hitzinger was leaving Porsche.