For long-time Audi stalwart and Le Mans winner Allan McNish, becoming Audi’s first racing director in Formula 1 feels like the natural progression of his storied career on both sides of the pitwall.
After climbing the UK single-seater ladder in the late ’80s and early ’90s, McNish’s road to the top took a number of strange turns, with a McLaren F1 test role that ultimately didn’t lead to an F1 seat. Instead, McNish headed to sportscar racing, becoming one of the pillars of Audi’s hyper-successful prototype programme and winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1998 with Porsche.
The Scot ultimately made it to the F1 grid in 2002 at the age of 32 for…
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