Will Joseph
McLaren Salary
Race Engineering Director and Norris Race Engineer
Will Joseph's F1 Salary With McLaren
Lando Norris’s race engineer is paid from a £200k-450k ($265k-596k) base band in F1 Salaries’ role-based figures. Joseph leads McLaren’s race engineering as well, and that wider job is why his band sits above the £100k-180k ($133k-239k) used for engineers who look after one car.
With a bonus of £20k-135k ($27k-179k), his total would reach £220k-585k ($292k-775k). He was on the radio when Norris won the 2025 drivers’ title, although McLaren has never said whether that championship paid out for its engineers.
Anonymous motorsport pay survey that informs Joseph's department head band and the 10% to 30% bonus range.
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Will Joseph's Two Jobs on the McLaren Pit Wall
On a race weekend Joseph is Lando Norris‘s race engineer, in charge of the setup of his car and the technical conversation between driver and team. Away from the radio he leads McLaren’s race engineering group, which covers the engineers on both cars.
Norris has never had another race engineer in Formula 1. They started together in 2019, and Joseph kept the car when McLaren promoted him to director in 2024. His colleague Tom Stallard engineers Oscar Piastri, and both answer to the leadership of Andrea Stella.
Secondary chronology of his McLaren career from rear suspension design in 2006 to his Norris pairing.
2026 guide confirming Joseph on Norris's car and his promotion to race engineering director in 2024.
Joseph and the Grid's Other Lead Race Engineers
Joseph’s closest match elsewhere is Mercedes’ Peter Bonnington, who also runs race engineering while working with a driver and sits on £250k-600k ($331k-795k). Red Bull’s Gianpiero Lambiase, who joins McLaren as Chief Racing Officer by 2028, is higher again at £350k-800k ($464k-1.1m). The F1 race engineers page has the rest.
Will Joseph's McLaren Career Since 2006
Joseph joined McLaren from Cambridge in 2006 as a suspension designer and needed eleven years to reach a race engineer’s seat.
Joseph Alongside McLaren's Senior Staff
Joseph’s band is the one F1 Salaries also gives racing director Randeep Singh at McLaren. Technical chiefs such as Peter Prodromou sit well above it on £500k-2m ($663k-2.7m), and Norris himself earns a $30m base, which is more than 50 times the top of Joseph’s range.
Will Joseph and Lando Norris FAQs
Will Joseph has been Lando Norris’s race engineer since Norris made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019, so 2026 is their eighth season together. He’s the only race engineer Norris has had in Formula 1, and he kept the job after his 2024 promotion to race engineering director.
Will Joseph’s role has two parts. He’s Lando Norris’s race engineer, in charge of setup and the technical conversation with the driver, and he’s also McLaren’s race engineering director, with responsibility for the race engineers on both cars. He took on the director job in 2024.
McLaren is the only F1 team Will Joseph has worked for. He joined after studying engineering at Cambridge in 2006 and has moved through design, car build, simulator work and performance engineering. He became a race engineer in 2017, first with Fernando Alonso and then with Norris.
Will Joseph’s base pay is £200k-450k ($265k-596k) according to F1 Salaries, a band that covers his director role as well as his work with Norris. Add a bonus of £20k-135k ($27k-179k) and the total comes to £220k-585k ($292k-775k). McLaren keeps engineering pay private.
Yes, Will Joseph was Lando Norris’s race engineer when he won the 2025 drivers’ championship. By then Joseph was also running McLaren’s race engineering department, and the team kept the constructors’ crown that year. It capped a partnership that began in Norris’s rookie year of 2019.