Who are F1 drivers’ race engineers in 2025?

A race engineer has one of the most important roles in any Formula 1 team. It is their job to optimise the performance of the driver-and-car combination. Throughout the race weekend, they translate the feedback coming from the driver into set-up decisions to achieve the best possible result. And, except in rare cases, they are the only ones who communicate directly with drivers via team radio.

Here’s who F1 drivers will be working with in 2025.

Norris will continue to work with Will Joseph, who has been part of the Briton’s crew since his F1 debut in 2019. The pair already have a good working relationship, which should help Norris in this year’s campaign. In 2023, McLaren experimented with alternating engineers on Norris’ side of the garage, with Jose Manuel Lopez taking on the role for some races, but ultimately Joseph remained as the English racer’s sole race engineer.

Tom Stallard, who won a silver medal in rowing for Team GB at the 2008 Olympic Games, has been with McLaren for almost two decades. As a race engineer, he has worked with Jenson Button, Stoffel Vandoorne, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo. He has partnered with Piastri since the Australian’s F1 debut two years ago and will continue in the same role in 2025.

Oscar Piastri with Tom Stallard

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Hamilton will be working with one of the most experienced race engineers in F1. Riccardo Adami joined Ferrari from Toro Rosso in 2015 and has since worked with Sebastian Vettel and Sainz. This will be Hamilton’s first change of race engineer in more than a decade, as Peter Bonnington has decided to stay at Mercedes.

Riccardo Adami, Ferrari

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In May 2024, Bryan Bozzi replaced Xavi Marcos as Leclerc’s race engineer. While Marcos’ infamous “We are checking” replies became the source of memes about Ferrari’s alleged incompetence in race strategy, Bozzi sounds much more confident and even a little stern with Leclerc – and the Monegasque has already secured three victories alongside the Italian-Danish engineer. Bozzi joined Ferrari in 2012 and has worked in Leclerc’s crew since the driver joined the team in 2019. He was previously his performance engineer.

Bryan Bozzi, Scuderia Ferrari

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The Jason Statham of F1 will continue to guide Verstappen despite his promotion within Red Bull. It’s hard to imagine another engineer handling the Dutchman’s temperament as effectively. Gianpiero Lambiase started in F1 when Verstappen was still in primary school, working with Paul Di Resta and Sergio Perez at Force India. He was initially hired by Red Bull to replace Guillaume Rocquelin as Vettel’s engineer, but when the German left for Ferrari, Lambiase ended up working with Daniil Kvyat. After Kvyat was demoted to Toro Rosso in mid-2016, Lambiase was paired with then-18-year-old Verstappen. They’ve been inseparable since.

Gianpiero Lambiase, Red Bull Racing

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The second Red Bull car is entrusted to Richard Wood, who, like incoming driver Lawson, is relatively new to the role. Woody, as he’s known in the team, has been with Red Bull for more than a decade, rising through the ranks before joining Perez’s side of the garage as a performance engineer four years ago. Last year he had his first stint as race engineer, replacing Hugh Bird, who missed several races through paternity leave. Christian Horner cited this as a key factor in Wood’s “natural” promotion, with Bird now concentrating on factory work in order to spend more time with his family.

Richard Wood with Sergio Perez

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Mercedes

It’s hard to imagine a better coach for the Mercedes youngster at the start of his F1 career. Peter Bonnington’s last two drivers are the most successful in F1 history. Bono joined the Brackley-based team in the Honda era, won the 2009 championship as Jenson Button’s performance engineer when the outfit was Brawn GP, and then retained the role for Michael Schumacher when it became Mercedes. He went on to take over as Hamilton’s race engineer in 2013, and together they broke many records. As well as keeping Antonelli’s tyres in good shape, Bono – now head of race engineering – will oversee both sides of the garage.

Lewis Hamilton with Peter Bonnington

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The lead Mercedes driver will continue to work with Marcus Dudley, who has been Russell’s race engineer since 2023. Since then, he has not only helped the Briton learn the difference between sweat and rain but has also guided him to a couple of grand prix victories. Dudley has been with Mercedes for more than a decade, having started his F1 career in 2006.

Marcus Dudley, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team

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Aston Martin

Alonso’s previous engineer, Chris Cronin, who also worked with Vettel and Perez, has been promoted within the team. Alonso will now work with Andrew Vizard, who has moved from Lance Stroll’s side of the garage. Vizard began working with Stroll at the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix and has now been assigned to Alonso. He joined Aston Martin at the start of 2023 after five years with Williams.

Andrew Vizard with Lance Stroll

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The American engineer started his F1 career with Marussia and spent the last decade with Haas. Gary Gannon was the race engineer for Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen before working with German drivers Mick Schumacher and Nico Hulkenberg. He built a strong reputation at Haas, and his move to Aston Martin is a logical career progression.

Gary Gannon worked with Nico Hulkenberg for the last two years at Haas

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This is John Howard’s second season as Gasly’s race engineer after the team promoted the Frenchman’s previous engineer, Karel Loos, to deputy head of track engineering. Howard has been with Alpine for 13 years, starting as a mechanical design engineer and working his way up through other roles, including engineering coordinator and senior performance engineer.

John Howard, Alpine race engineer

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For the past few years, Josh Peckett has been Esteban Ocon’s race engineer, famously guiding him to victory in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. The pair reunited at Alpine, having both worked at Manor in 2016 when the Frenchman made his F1 debut – although Peckett was on a different side of the garage at the time. Now their paths have parted again, with Ocon moving to Haas and Peckett remaining at Alpine, where he’ll work with Jack Doohan.

Jack Doohan with Josh Peckett

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Haas

Ocon’s race engineer will be under the spotlight this year as Laura Mueller is the first woman to hold such a position in F1. The 33-year-old German joined Haas in 2022 after a career in sportscars, DTM and GT. She has been a performance engineer for the past two years and will now help Ocon settle in at Haas.

Laura Müller and Esteban Ocon

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Haas changed both race engineers over the winter. Gary Gannon and Mark Slade left the team to make way for Mueller and Ronan O’Hare. The latter will now work with Bearman. The Irish engineer has a wealth of experience, not only in F1 but also in other categories, including Formula E. In F1, before Haas, he worked for Williams and also spent a few years at Brackley.

Oliver Bearman with Ronan O’Hare

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Ernesto Desiderio is Tsunoda’s second race engineer in F1. The Japanese started his career with Mattia Spini, but the latter was promoted within the team in the middle of last year, so Yuki has been working with Desiderio since the Monza race. Ernesto joined the team in 2023 from Williams. He previously worked at Haas.

Yuki Tsunoda with race engineer Ernesto Desiderio

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The French rookie will work alongside compatriot Pierre Hamelin, who has been one of the Faenza-based team’s race engineers since 2016. He was promoted to the role ahead of that year’s Spanish Grand Prix and has since worked with a number of drivers including Kvyat, Brendon Hartley, Gasly, Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo and most recently Lawson.

Pierre Hamelin has been working with several drivers, including Daniel Ricciardo

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Williams

Having started his career as a mechanic in the European Le Mans Series and British Touring Car Championship, James Urwin joined Williams in 2014 and has since worked as a race engineer for Stroll and Russell. The coming season will be his fourth with Albon.

Alex Albon, Williams Racing, with his engineer James Urwin on the grid

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Gaetan Jego joined Williams in 2020, having previously spent more than a decade with the ART Grand Prix team. He moved to F1 from the role of LMP1 technical director when the outfit supported SMP Racing in sportscars, working with Nicholas Latifi, Logan Sargeant and Franco Colapinto at the end of last year. Now he’s tasked with helping four-time race winner Sainz.

Gaetan Jego, Williams Racing Race Engineer

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Steven Petrik joined Sauber last year from Ferrari. He spent eight years in Maranello as a performance engineer, most recently on Sainz’s side of the garage. After moving to Sauber, he replaced Valtteri Bottas’ engineer Alex Chan and stayed in that role until the end of the season.

Steven Petrik

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Jose Manuel Lopez joined Sauber from McLaren over the winter. For the majority of his time at Woking, which began in 2020, he was Norris’ performance engineer, and on a number of occasions in 2023 he even acted as his race engineer, deputising for Will Joseph, particularly while the Briton was on paternity leave.

Last year, however, he moved to McLaren’s driver development department and it was in this role that he had the opportunity to oversee Bortoleto’s performance in Formula 2 – so although the Brazilian is a rookie in F1, he’s already had experience of working with his new race engineer. Prior to McLaren, Lopez spent several years at Haas, where he was one of the team’s first employees.

Jose Manuel Lopez with Lando Norris

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