Andrea Stella
McLaren Salary
Team Principal and Chief Racing Officer
Andrea Stella's Salary at McLaren in 2026
We put Andrea Stella’s McLaren base salary at £3m-5m ($4m-6.6m) for 2026. That’s our band for a team principal who also holds the Chief Racing Officer title, and it sits a step below Toto Wolff’s at Mercedes.
A bonus of £300k-1.5m ($398k-2m) would take his year to £3.3m-6.5m ($4.4m-8.6m). McLaren won the constructors’ title in 2024 and again in 2025, and it hasn’t said what those seasons paid him. When he got the job, Crash quoted Sportune’s €6m-8m ($6.8m-9.1m).
Anonymous motorsport pay survey behind the role bands and the 10% to 30% bonus range used for Stella.
Puts Stella's total compensation at $5.5m in a 2024 to 2025 ranking, a dated estimate rather than his 2026 contract.
Reports Sportune's €6m to €8m figure for Stella's pay as he took charge of McLaren for 2023.
Repeats the £1.2m net worth figure for Stella without any breakdown of his assets.
April 2026 list that puts Stella on €6m, behind Wolff and Vasseur, with unclear definitions of pay.
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Insider · Issue 23
01 · The Last Race
Singapore by Salary
Pos
Driver
Pts
Salary
1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
25
$70m
2
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
18
$34m
3
Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
15
$3.4m
4
Lando Norris
McLaren
12
$30m
5
Oscar Piastri
McLaren
10
$13m
6
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7
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Our Take · Insider+
What Each Point Now Costs Red Bull
What Stella Actually Runs as McLaren Team Principal
Stella leads McLaren’s Formula 1 team day to day. The engineering organization and the race operation both answer to him, while Zak Brown runs McLaren Racing as a business and Stella reports to him.
The Chief Racing Officer part of his title covers the trackside program. McLaren announced in April 2026 that Gianpiero Lambiase will arrive in that role no later than 2028. What Stella brings is a race engineer’s eye. He spent more than a decade on Ferrari’s pit wall, so drivers and engineers hear the same language from the top.
McLaren's own biography, confirming his Team Principal and Chief Racing Officer titles and his Ferrari background.
Covers Stella's 2024 multi-year renewal with McLaren and how it compares with other team bosses' deals.
Stella's Pay Against Other F1 Team Principals
Stella’s £3m-5m ($4m-6.6m) band puts him among the better paid F1 team principals, below Toto Wolff on £4m-7m ($5.3m-9.3m) and close to Frédéric Vasseur. Kursiv’s April 2026 list had Stella on €6m ($6.8m), with Wolff and Vasseur on €8m ($9.1m) each.
Andrea Stella's Career at Ferrari and McLaren
Stella spent 15 years in Ferrari’s engineering department before following Fernando Alonso to McLaren, where he worked his way up to the top job.
Where Stella Sits Among McLaren's Top Staff
Stella runs the McLaren F1 team, but he isn’t its top earner. That’s Zak Brown, reported at £37.25m ($49.4m) for 2024. Below Stella, technical chiefs such as Rob Marshall sit on £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) in our bands, and race engineers earn a fraction of that.
Andrea Stella Salary and Career FAQs
Andrea Stella earns a base salary of £3m-5m ($4m-6.6m) as McLaren team principal on F1 Salaries’ figures. Add a bonus of £300k-1.5m ($398k-2m) and his year comes to £3.3m-6.5m ($4.4m-8.6m). McLaren has never published his pay, so these are our bands rather than contract terms.
Yes, Andrea Stella worked for Ferrari from 2000 to 2014. He started in the test team, became performance engineer on Michael Schumacher’s car in 2002 and later did the same job for Kimi Räikkönen. From 2010 he was Fernando Alonso’s race engineer, and he followed Alonso to McLaren in 2015.
Everything published says Andrea Stella is staying. He signed a multi-year renewal in 2024, although McLaren didn’t give its length. The team has also hired Gianpiero Lambiase as its future Chief Racing Officer, and that appointment covers part of Stella’s current title rather than his team principal job.
Andrea Stella replaced Andreas Seidl, who left McLaren at the end of 2022 to join Sauber. McLaren announced Stella as team principal on December 13, 2022, after nearly eight years at the team in race operations, performance and racing director roles, and 2023 was his first season in charge.
Andrea Stella worked on three world champions’ cars at Ferrari. He was Michael Schumacher’s performance engineer from 2002 and moved across to Kimi Räikkönen in 2007, becoming his race engineer in 2009. Fernando Alonso then had Stella as his race engineer for all five of his Ferrari seasons.
Andrea Stella’s net worth is often put at £1.2m ($1.6m), a figure repeated in articles since 2023. Nobody has shown the assets behind it, so it’s a rough guide at best. For comparison, our salary band for his current job alone is £3m-5m ($4m-6.6m) a year.