Tom Stallard
McLaren Salary
Piastri Race Engineer and Director of Human Performance
What Tom Stallard Is Paid by McLaren
Tom Stallard is paid for two roles, so his 2026 base in F1 Salaries’ role-based figures is £200k-450k ($265k-596k), above the usual race engineer’s band. The extra reflects his job as McLaren’s Director of Human Performance, a leadership brief he carries on top of Oscar Piastri’s car.
A bonus of £20k-135k ($27k-179k) would give him £220k-585k ($292k-775k) for the year. McLaren doesn’t publish engineers’ salaries. For a sense of scale, George Russell’s engineer at Mercedes, Marcus Dudley, is on £100k-180k ($133k-239k) in our figures.
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What Tom Stallard Does as Oscar Piastri's Race Engineer
Stallard is Oscar Piastri‘s race engineer, the voice on his radio and the person who runs setup and technical communication on his car. They’ve worked together since Piastri’s debut in 2023.
His second title, Director of Human Performance, gives him a leadership role focused on McLaren’s people, and it fits someone who won Olympic silver as a rower. On the pit wall his job is turning expert analysis and driver feedback into decisions the team can use. McLaren’s wider race engineering group is led by Will Joseph, who engineers Lando Norris.
First-person account of Stallard's work as a race engineer and how analysis and driver feedback become decisions.
Podcast interview on his move from Olympic rowing into F1 and his work with Ricciardo and Piastri.
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Stallard's Pay Next to Other F1 Race Engineers
Stallard’s director title lifts his band above most race engineers’. Ferrari’s Bryan Bozzi, who engineers Charles Leclerc, is on £100k-180k ($133k-239k), while Aston Martin’s Chris Cronin, who pairs Fernando Alonso’s car with a trackside chief engineer job, is on £180k-350k ($239k-464k). Every pairing is on the F1 race engineers page.
Tom Stallard's F1 Career After Olympic Rowing
Stallard came to McLaren from international rowing in 2008 and has since engineered five different drivers from the pit wall.
Stallard Within McLaren's Engineering Group
Stallard is one of two race engineers with a staff page at McLaren, and both hold director titles. He and Will Joseph share their band with sporting director Will Courtenay, while the team’s technical chiefs, among them Neil Houldey, sit higher on £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m).
What Fans Ask About Tom Stallard
Oscar Piastri’s race engineer at McLaren is Tom Stallard. They’ve been paired since Piastri’s F1 debut in 2023, so Stallard has been on the radio for every one of his Grand Prix wins. Before Piastri, he engineered Jenson Button, Stoffel Vandoorne, Carlos Sainz, and Daniel Ricciardo.
Tom Stallard is a British engineer who works as Oscar Piastri’s race engineer and McLaren’s Director of Human Performance. Before F1 he was an international rower, and he won Olympic silver for Great Britain in 2008. He joined McLaren that year and has been a race engineer since 2014.
Tom Stallard already had the engineering training when he left rowing. He’d studied engineering at Cambridge and motorsport engineering at Brunel, so after his 2008 Olympic silver he went straight into simulator work at McLaren. From there he moved into performance engineering and got his first car, Jenson Button’s, in 2014.
As Director of Human Performance, Tom Stallard leads McLaren’s work on how its people perform, alongside his job as Piastri’s race engineer. McLaren hasn’t published a detailed description of the role. It suits someone who spent years in elite sport, where preparation and teamwork decide results as much as the equipment.
Tom Stallard’s base salary is £200k-450k ($265k-596k) on F1 Salaries’ figures, above a standard race engineer’s band because of his director role. With a bonus of £20k-135k ($27k-179k), his year would reach £220k-585k ($292k-775k). McLaren doesn’t publish what he’s paid.
Born on September 11, 1978, Tom Stallard is 48. He was 29 when he won Olympic silver in Beijing in August 2008 and 35 when he became Jenson Button’s race engineer in 2014, which made him a late starter by F1 standards. He’s now been at McLaren for 18 years.