Peter Prodromou
McLaren Salary
Chief Technical Officer Aerodynamics
Peter Prodromou's Pay as McLaren's Aero Chief
Prodromou’s base pay at McLaren falls in a £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) band, the F1 Salaries figure for a chief technical officer. McLaren has never said what he earns, and the figures stayed private when it renewed his contract in February 2025.
Bonuses worth £50k-600k ($66k-795k) would make the year’s total £550k-2.6m ($729k-3.4m). The renewal came two months after McLaren won the 2024 constructors’ title, its first since 1998. He’s on the same band as Rob Marshall, his design office colleague at Red Bull for eight years.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey behind the CTO band and 10% to 30% bonus range applied to Prodromou.
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How Prodromou Leads McLaren's Aero Program
Prodromou leads McLaren’s aero development. His department has to make the CFD simulations, the wind tunnel and the car on track agree with each other, because an upgrade is only worth something if the gains measured at the factory show up at the circuit.
He reports to Andrea Stella and works beside Rob Marshall, who runs design. McLaren’s team page now heads his profile Chief Technical Officer Aerodynamics, although its text still calls him technical director, the title he took in March 2023. He brings more than three decades in F1, much of it on aero beside Adrian Newey.
McLaren's biography, headed Chief Technical Officer Aerodynamics while the text still describes his technical director appointment.
McLaren's February 2025 statement on his multi-year extension, which gave no length, end date or pay.
Prodromou and F1's Other Aero Leaders
Prodromou’s CTO band puts him above the aero heads at other teams, such as Ferrari’s Diego Tondi and Aston Martin’s Gioacchino Vino, who are both on £180k-350k ($239k-464k). His old boss Adrian Newey is in another bracket, with a package worth up to £30m ($39.8m). Every F1 technical staff salary is compared on one page.
Peter Prodromou's Two Spells at McLaren
Prodromou has spent most of his working life at McLaren, with eight years leading aero at Red Bull splitting his two spells at Woking.
Prodromou in McLaren's Pay Structure
Prodromou first joined McLaren in 1991, earlier than anyone else on the team’s staff pages. His £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) band matches the one for Neil Houldey, and race engineers such as Will Joseph sit lower on £200k-450k ($265k-596k).
What People Ask About Peter Prodromou
Peter Prodromou’s multi-year extension was announced by McLaren in February 2025. It renewed a job he already held rather than giving him a new one, since he’d been running the aero department as technical director since March 2023. The statement didn’t include the contract’s length or any financial terms.
No, the end date of Peter Prodromou’s contract isn’t public. McLaren described his February 2025 renewal only as multi-year and hasn’t named a year since. That doesn’t mean he’s close to leaving or negotiating. The terms are simply private, as they are for Andrea Stella’s 2024 renewal.
Peter Prodromou is McLaren’s aero chief, listed on the team’s site as Chief Technical Officer Aerodynamics. He joined McLaren in 1991, became Adrian Newey’s deputy and spent 2006 to 2014 at Red Bull before returning to Woking. Since March 2023 he’s been in charge of the whole aero department.
Peter Prodromou’s base sits in F1 Salaries’ £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) band for a chief technical officer. A bonus of £50k-600k ($66k-795k) would give him £550k-2.6m ($729k-3.4m) for the year. McLaren didn’t disclose any pay when it renewed him in 2025.
Yes, Peter Prodromou worked with Adrian Newey at two teams. He was Newey’s deputy at McLaren before following him to Red Bull in 2006, where they were part of the design group behind Sebastian Vettel’s four titles. Prodromou returned to McLaren in 2014, and Newey is now team principal at Aston Martin.