Hannah Schmitz
Red Bull Salary
Head of Race Strategy
How Much Hannah Schmitz Earns Running Red Bull Strategy
Hannah Schmitz earns £180k-350k ($239k-464k) in base salary as Red Bull’s Head of Race Strategy, in F1 Salaries’ band for department heads. Her bonus could be worth £18k-105k ($24k-139k), for a yearly total of £198k-455k ($262k-603k).
The only published number for her is older and smaller. FirstSportz put her salary at $154k in September 2022, before bonuses, when she was principal strategy engineer. Running the whole department since Will Courtenay left for McLaren is a bigger job than the one that figure described.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey behind F1 Salaries' department-head band and the 10% to 30% bonus range used for Schmitz.
September 2022 article putting her salary at $154k before bonuses and her net worth at $3m, without a financial source.
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Schmitz's Strategy Calls on the Red Bull Pit Wall
Schmitz sets Red Bull’s race strategy for both cars. Before a Grand Prix her department models pace, tire degradation, pit-stop time loss and likely race positions. During it she reads those numbers live and shapes the calls on when Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar stop.
Her team works from the pit wall and from the factory at Milton Keynes. She’s been in Red Bull’s strategy group since 2009, so she took over the department this year with 17 seasons of the team’s race calls behind her.
Cambridge Engineering's alumni feature, with Schmitz's own account of her route into F1 and her Red Bull career.
Secondary chronology of her Red Bull career, including the 2011 and 2021 promotions and the 2019 Brazil podium.
Schmitz Next to Other F1 Strategy Chiefs
Schmitz is on the same £180k-350k ($239k-464k) band as the other heads of strategy on our F1 strategy staff pages, including Ferrari’s Ravin Jain and Haas’ Carine Cridelich. Andy Cowell has a strategy title at Aston Martin too, but his is a company role rather than race strategy.
Hannah Schmitz's Red Bull Career Since 2009
Schmitz has spent her whole Formula 1 career at Red Bull, arriving from Cambridge in 2009 and moving up three times since.
Schmitz Between Red Bull's Two Race Engineers
Race engineers pass Schmitz’s calls to the drivers, Gianpiero Lambiase for Verstappen and Richard Wood for Hadjar. Her band sits between theirs, above Wood’s £100k-180k ($133k-239k) and below Lambiase’s, which reflects his extra role as Head of Racing. Among Red Bull‘s staff pages, it’s the same band as fellow department heads Andrea Landi and Paul Monaghan.
Hannah Schmitz Questions Answered
Hannah Schmitz gets a base salary of £180k-350k ($239k-464k) as Red Bull’s Head of Race Strategy, on F1 Salaries’ figures. A bonus could lift her year to as much as £455k ($603k). The $154k FirstSportz reported in 2022 excluded bonuses and dates from before her promotion.
Cambridge was Hannah Schmitz’s route into F1. She studied engineering there and joined Red Bull in 2009, in a job that combined race modeling with strategy work. She moved up to senior strategy engineer in 2011, and Red Bull is still the only Formula 1 team she has worked for.
Red Bull sent Hannah Schmitz to collect the constructors’ trophy in Brazil in 2019 because her strategy had helped Max Verstappen win the race. It was a rare public moment for a strategist, and it put her in front of a far wider audience than the pit wall usually gets.
Yes, Hannah Schmitz’s strategy department works on both Red Bull cars, Max Verstappen’s and Isack Hadjar’s. It prepares pace, tire wear and pit-stop models before each race, then assesses them live from the pit wall and the factory. Each driver’s race engineer relays the calls on the radio.
FirstSportz put Hannah Schmitz’s net worth at $3m in September 2022, and that’s the figure shown on this page. It came without a breakdown of assets or an original financial source. It’s also four years old, so it predates her promotion to Head of Race Strategy.
Hannah Schmitz works for Red Bull, not Ferrari, and no move to Maranello has been announced. She’s been with Red Bull since 2009 and took charge of its strategy department for 2026, after Will Courtenay left. Every promotion in her career so far has come at the same team.