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+# Proton Competition roster follow-up — 2026-07-18
+
+## Scope and method
+
+This pass audited Proton Competition's 2026 Le Mans cars #9, #44, #77 and #88, then ran reverse current-employee searches for team-level engineering, mechanical, composites, garage and operations roles. MySearch/Firecrawl extracted the car records and MySearch/Exa discovered exact professional profiles. No video, reel, frame or video thumbnail was searched or used.
+
+## Adopted car assignments
+
+| Person | English role original | Car | Decision |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| Steve Hagger | `Team Manager` | #9 / #44 / #77 / #88 | medium; repeated across all four 2026 records and 2025 #11 |
+| Ryan Johnson | `Car engineer` | #9 / #44 | high; two current records plus his personal professional site |
+| Gilles Dieryck | `Chief mechanic` / current profile `Race Mechanic Proton Competition` | #44 | medium; car record writes `Gilles Dyerick`, exact current profile resolves the spelling |
+| Sergio Cruz Rodrigo | `Data acquisition` / current profile `Race and Performance Engineer` | #44 | medium; current primary employer is Drivex, so Proton is recorded as a car-specific project |
+
+## Adopted team-level personnel
+
+| Person | English role original | Current evidence |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Mark-Phillip Tamaño Santos | `MOTORSPORT ENGINEER - PROTON COMPETITION` | March 2021-present; LMP2 race engineering and WEC/IMSA systems/data duties |
+| Alberto González Rodrigo | `Data Engineer` | December 2025-present; Proton GT3 / Asian Le Mans project |
+| Daniel Martin Casanova | `Junior Data Engineer` | January 2025-present; WEC Ford Mustang LMGT3 and ELMS work |
+| Giovanni Roccatagliata | `Assistant Team Manager` / `Team Coordinator` | April 2023-present; WEC, ELMS, ALMS and IMSA |
+| Mirko Agueli | `Assistant Team Manager` | November 2025-present |
+| Paul Olivieri | `Composites` | March 2023-present |
+| Nick Hughes | `Garage Technician` | March 2015-present; garage walling and refuelling pit duties |
+
+Team-level records are not assigned to a 2026 car unless the public source supplies that scope.
+
+## Portrait audit
+
+Seven static portraits were adopted: Ryan Johnson, Sergio Cruz Rodrigo, Mark-Phillip Tamaño Santos, Daniel Martin Casanova, Giovanni Roccatagliata, Mirko Agueli and Paul Olivieri. Ryan's high-resolution personal-site image was cropped around the face for readable 48px and 96px presentation. Alberto's ambiguous two-person scene and the helmeted Gilles and Nick images were rejected. All adopted files were downloaded locally and visually checked before ingestion.
+
+## Still held
+
+- François Genevrier and Guillaume Aragon have current PREMA profiles, but no independent current evidence proves the Proton #77 duties listed by the car record.
+- `Mr Gauthier` is incomplete and cannot be mapped to an exact identity.
+- No images from namesakes, vehicles, group photos, videos or social-video thumbnails were adopted.