Boisson moves to Arrow McLaren to lead damper program

Olivier Boisson has joined Arrow McLaren as its new Head of Damper Engineering.

The race-winning race engineer reunites with former KV Racing driver Tony Kanaan, who leads Arrow McLaren as its team principal, and brings his formidable skills to a team that’s in the midst of a number of personnel changes under the direction of Kanaan and Kyle Moyer, who arrived on June 30 as Arrow McLaren’s Director of Competition.

Boisson spent the last two seasons at Andretti Global, where he was paired with Marcus Ericsson as race engineer before they split last summer and Dave Seyffert stepped into the role. The Frenchman lands at a program which placed a distant second to Chip Ganassi Racing in the 2025 IndyCar Series championship with Pato O'Ward, and along with the addition of Eric Cowdin in September as Arrow McLaren’s new Director of Engineering, Boisson serves as another high-profile technical recruit to help the program bridge the gap to CGR.

“Olivier and I go back several years, as we worked together at my Indy 500 win,” Kanaan said of their 2013 triumph. “He is very well known in the paddock as a great engineer, but also as a damper guy. Over the past couple of years that I’ve been here, that has been a department where we’ve had a lot of young, up and coming damper engineers, but we knew we needed a guru. Olivier is one of the most talented damper engineers out there who I really trust. When I heard he was available, I thought, ‘Well that’s very interesting.’

“People as talented as Olivier don’t really look for a job; they choose where to go, and the same thing happened with Kyle Moyer. We share the same garage space up at Motor District in Westfield, we see each other a lot and our families have always stayed close over the years. There are a handful of people on this team now who have worked with me. The expectation is for him to raise the game and teach the talented, but younger, employees in the department. It will be important to have continuity, and he will be the right fit for that. He doesn’t have an ego and will really work hard to develop our other young guns along with our overall performance."