Dino Vittorio Marcellinus Toso (11 February 1969 – 13 August 2008)[1] was an Italian-Dutch engineer who worked as the Renault Formula One team's Director of Aerodynamics from 2003 until June 2008.
[2] He worked at NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre until 1995, when he was recruited by BMW for its GT racing programme.
His time at Jordan included its first win at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, where he engineered driver Damon Hill's victorious car.
[4][5] For 2001 he followed former Jordan colleague Mike Gascoyne to Benetton, which had been sold to Renault the previous year and was rebranded as such in 2002.
[6][7][8] The team won seventeen Grands Prix during his tenure, fourteen for Fernando Alonso, two for Giancarlo Fisichella and one for Jarno Trulli.