Randeep Singh
McLaren Salary
Racing Director
How Much Randeep Singh Makes at McLaren
A racing director at McLaren sits on a base of £200k-450k ($265k-596k) in F1 Salaries’ role-based band, and that’s the figure for Randeep Singh. McLaren hasn’t published his pay, and it’s never appeared in the press.
Bonuses of £20k-135k ($27k-179k) would push his year to £220k-585k ($292k-775k). Singh held the racing director title through the end of 2024 and the whole of 2025, and both seasons ended with the constructors’ trophy going to Woking. Will Courtenay, who reports to him, is on the same band.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey used for the racing director band and 10% to 30% bonus range applied to Singh.
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What a Racing Director Does at McLaren
Singh runs the racing side of McLaren’s F1 operation. His remit covers race simulations, pit decisions and the link between the pit wall and the factory, so the strategy calls on a Sunday come out of his department. It’s a team job, and it shouldn’t be confused with the FIA race director who runs each Grand Prix.
Sporting director Will Courtenay reports to Singh, who works under Andrea Stella. He came up through strategy himself as McLaren’s head of race strategy, after studying mathematics at Oxford.
Career interview from his time as McLaren's head of race strategy, covering his Oxford studies and route into F1.
June 2026 Formula 1 video that still describes Singh as McLaren's racing director.
Singh Compared With Other F1 Sporting Chiefs
Among the other staff pages, only Alpine’s Dave Greenwood shares Singh’s racing director title, and both are on £200k-450k ($265k-596k). Mercedes sporting director Ron Meadows sits on the same band, which covers every team’s sporting and racing chiefs on the F1 sporting directors page.
Randeep Singh's Career in Race Strategy
Singh’s route into Formula 1 ran through mathematics and software, and he spent years in strategy before taking charge of McLaren’s racing department.
Singh's Place in McLaren's Race Operation
Singh sits between the leadership and the pit wall at McLaren. His band is the same as the one given to race engineering director Will Joseph, and it’s a long way below the £3m-5m ($4m-6.6m) for Andrea Stella, the team principal he answers to.
Randeep Singh FAQs
Randeep Singh is McLaren’s Racing Director, the manager in charge of the race side of its Formula 1 operation. He studied mathematics at Oxford, started in motorsport on strategy software for Williams and later became McLaren’s head of race strategy. He held the racing director title by September 2024.
McLaren’s racing director is Randeep Singh. The two titles are easy to mix up, but race director is an FIA post, and whoever holds it runs each Grand Prix for every team. Singh’s role belongs to McLaren and covers its own strategy, simulations and pit calls.
Randeep Singh’s role covers McLaren’s race strategy and race operations. His department runs the simulations before and during a race, makes the pit decisions and keeps the track and the factory working from the same information. Sporting director Will Courtenay also reports to him.
Williams and McLaren are the confirmed employers in Randeep Singh’s career. He worked on strategy software for Williams early on before moving into race strategy, and he’s since risen to run McLaren’s racing department. His full employment history hasn’t been published, so the gaps between those jobs aren’t clear.
Randeep Singh earns a base of £200k-450k ($265k-596k) by F1 Salaries’ reckoning for a racing director. A bonus of £20k-135k ($27k-179k) would put his year at £220k-585k ($292k-775k). McLaren hasn’t disclosed his pay or how long his contract runs.