Carlo Pasetti
Cadillac Salary
Race Engineer to Sergio Pérez
Carlo Pasetti's F1 Salary at Cadillac
Carlo Pasetti’s base salary at Cadillac is £100k-180k ($133k-239k), our figure for an F1 race engineer running a single car. A bonus of £10k-54k ($13k-72k) would take his year to £110k-234k ($146k-310k).
That puts him level with John Howard, who does the same job for Valtteri Bottas. What he brings to Cadillac is his history with Sergio Pérez, which gives the grid’s newest team some continuity on that car. Cadillac hasn’t published his pay or how long he’s signed for.
Motorsport-wide pay survey that informs the race engineer band and the bonus range applied to Pasetti.
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What Pasetti Does on Sergio Pérez's Car
Pasetti is the engineer on Sergio Pérez‘s radio. He coordinates the setup and the run plan for every session, and he answers to chief race engineer Xavier Marcos Padros, who oversees race engineering across both cars.
The pair go back to Racing Point. Pasetti was Pérez’s performance engineer there, and his time on the car included the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, where the Mexican won for the first time in F1. For a team with no previous seasons to lean on, that gave Cadillac one working relationship it didn’t have to build from scratch.
Lists Pasetti as Pérez's race engineer at Cadillac in its guide to every 2026 driver pairing.
December 2025 report confirming Pasetti on Pérez's car and John Howard on Bottas's for Cadillac's first season.
Names Pasetti as Pérez's engineer and recalls the Racing Point years the pair spent together.
How Pasetti's Pay Stacks Up Against Other Race Engineers
Pasetti’s band is the standard one for F1 race engineers who look after a single car. Ferrari’s Bryan Bozzi and Carlo Santi share it on the cars of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. Senior titles pay more, and Gary Gannon, a senior race engineer at Pasetti’s old team Aston Martin, is on £180k-350k ($239k-464k).
Carlo Pasetti's F1 Career at Silverstone and Cadillac
Pasetti’s documented F1 career runs through the Silverstone team that raced as Racing Point and then Aston Martin, where his work with Pérez began.
Pasetti's Place in Cadillac's Race Engineering Group
Pasetti is one of two race engineers at Cadillac, with John Howard on Bottas’s car across the garage. Both answer to Xavier Marcos Padros, whose chief race engineer band of £180k-350k ($239k-464k) starts where theirs ends. Nick Chester leads the team’s technical development as chief technical officer.
Carlo Pasetti FAQs
Carlo Pasetti and John Howard are Cadillac’s two race engineers in 2026. Pasetti runs Sergio Pérez’s car and Howard runs Valtteri Bottas’s, and the team confirmed both pairings in December 2025. Chief race engineer Xavier Marcos Padros sits above them and coordinates race engineering on the two cars.
Sergio Pérez’s race engineer at Cadillac is Carlo Pasetti. He doesn’t engineer Valtteri Bottas, despite some older pages saying so, because Bottas works with John Howard. Pasetti and Pérez already knew each other well from Racing Point, where Pasetti was the Mexican’s performance engineer.
Yes, Carlo Pasetti was Sergio Pérez’s performance engineer at Racing Point. That spell included the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, where Pérez won an F1 race for the first time. Pasetti stayed with the Silverstone team after it became Aston Martin, and Cadillac brought the two back together for 2026.
Carlo Pasetti earns £100k-180k ($133k-239k) in base salary on F1 Salaries’ band for a Cadillac race engineer. A bonus of £10k-54k ($13k-72k) would bring his total to £110k-234k ($146k-310k). Cadillac doesn’t publish staff pay, so this is a role band rather than his contract.
Cadillac confirmed Carlo Pasetti as Sergio Pérez’s race engineer in December 2025, ahead of its first F1 season. That date marks the pairing rather than his first day, and the team hasn’t said exactly when he moved across from Aston Martin or when he signed.