Nicolò Petrucci is an Italian engineer, former head of aerodynamics at Scuderia Toro Rosso, the Formula One team.
Nicolò Petrucci studied aeronautical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university of technology in Milan, Italy, specializing in aerodynamics.
He wrote a research paper on aero-elastic phenomena in a Formula 1 car, which was completed with the help of Harvey Postlethwaite and Giampaolo Dallara.
This led to Petrucci's job in 1992 as a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Scuderia Ferrari, a Formula One team.
After that, he moved to Jordan Grand Prix, but this team also ran out of funds, Petrucci resigned.