Q:Facts: - sport: formula one - team: mercedes - country: united kingdom - birth date: 20 june 1979 - name: james vowles - nationality: british - birth place: felbridge , east sussex Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of james vowles .
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james p. vowles , born 1979 in felbridge , is a british motorsport engineer , currently working in formula one with the mercedes team as their chief strategist .vowles was responsible for the brawn gp race strategy , which was critical to the team 's championship-winning 2009 campaign .prior to brawn gp , vowles worked in formula 1 as an engineer for brawn gp 's predecessors british american racing and honda racing f1 .the team was later bought by mercedes .vowles attended the international school of geneva , graduating in 1997 .he went on to the university of east anglia obtaining a degree in computer science in 2000 , followed by a master 's degree in motorsport engineering and management from cranfield university in 2001 , receiving the prodrive award of excellence .he is married to victoria vowles , partner services director at mercedes amg petronas .