[2] Meadows started his career in motorsport as a mechanic in his early teens and worked his way through the ranks to running his own Formula 3000 squad.

After several years as a team boss, Meadows moved to the US to work for Walker Racing in the Indy Car series.

[3] Meadows later joined Adrian Reynard's fledging British American Racing team as their factory manager.

In 2009, he helped Brawn GP take their one and only World Championship[citation needed], and remained in the same sporting director position as the champions were bought out by Mercedes winning 8 constructors and 7 drivers titles with the team.

In his current role Meadows is responsible for managing garage operations and is the lead figure on the Mercedes pit wall.