Pierre Waché
Red Bull Salary
Technical Director
How Much Red Bull's Technical Director Pierre Waché Earns
Pierre Waché’s Red Bull salary sits in F1 Salaries’ technical director band of £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m). Add a bonus of £50k-600k ($66k-795k) and his year works out at £550k-2.6m ($729k-3.4m).
Red Bull improved his contract in February 2024, with the new terms reported to run to the end of 2028, but it hasn’t said what they’re worth. The deal came a few months before Adrian Newey announced he was leaving Red Bull. That left Waché running the technical department without Newey above him.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey behind F1 Salaries' technical director band and the 10% to 30% bonus range used for Waché.
Profile that carries an unreferenced salary figure for Waché, alongside some biographical details that conflict with other sources.
Puts Waché's net worth at $3m-5m for 2025 without listing assets, the basis for the $4m midpoint.
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Where Waché Sits in Red Bull's Technical Structure
The whole of Red Bull’s technical department answers to Waché, covering car design and the performance engineering that gets the most out of it. Many engineers make the individual design calls, and his job is to pull them into one car and one development plan. He reports to Laurent Mekies.
Since the April 2026 reshuffle, Ben Waterhouse has led design and vehicle performance beneath him, with Andrea Landi running performance. Waché’s own roots are in that area. He came into F1 through Michelin’s tire program and worked at BMW Sauber before Red Bull hired him in 2013.
Reports the greatly improved contract Waché signed in February 2024, running to the end of 2028.
Red Bull's own profile of its technical director, covering his responsibilities and his route to the job.
Waché and the Grid's Other Technical Directors
Waché shares the £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) band with Mercedes’ James Allison and Ferrari’s Loïc Serra, the standard for technical directors on our F1 technical staff pages. His former Red Bull colleague Adrian Newey is the outlier, on an Aston Martin package of up to £30m ($39.8m).
Waché's Route Through Michelin and Sauber to Milton Keynes
Waché reached Formula 1 through tires, joining Michelin’s program in 2001, and moved via BMW Sauber to Red Bull in 2013.
Waché's Place Near the Top of Red Bull's Pay Structure
Inside the Red Bull F1 team, only Laurent Mekies has a higher band than Waché. The same £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) applies to Rob Gray at Red Bull Advanced Technologies, who was the F1 team’s chief designer until 2020, while chief engineer Paul Monaghan sits on £180k-350k ($239k-464k).
Pierre Waché Contract and Pay FAQs
Pierre Waché is Red Bull’s technical director, a post he has held since 2018. The Frenchman joined the team in 2013 to lead performance engineering and now oversees car design and performance as a whole. Ben Waterhouse and Andrea Landi work beneath him after the April 2026 technical reshuffle.
Tires decide how much of a car’s performance can actually be used, and Pierre Waché spent his first F1 years on the tire side at Michelin from 2001. That grounding carried into performance engineering at BMW Sauber and then Red Bull, where he led the department before becoming technical director.
Pierre Waché’s contract is reported to run to the end of 2028. RacingNews365 said he signed improved terms in February 2024, but Red Bull hasn’t confirmed the length or published what the deal pays. That report is the only public information on when his current contract ends.
Pierre Waché’s base salary is £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m) in F1 Salaries’ technical director band, and a bonus could take his year as high as £2.6m ($3.4m). Salary figures on some profile pages, including GPblog’s, come with no source or year, so they don’t show what Red Bull actually pays him.
Around $4m is the net worth figure for Pierre Waché on this page, the midpoint of the $3m-5m that the Times of India published for 2025. That report didn’t list any assets or debts, so treat the number as a rough marker rather than a valuation of what he owns.