Former Method 1 driver Allan McNish has been named racing director of the Audi F1 crew.
The transfer follows as crew principal final month.
McNish, 56, is a long-time Audi worker who has had a task advising the corporate’s board for a few years. The Scot has been concerned within the German firm’s F1 undertaking since its inception.
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He’ll begin in his new position on the subsequent race, the Miami Grand Prix on 1-3 Might. His obligations will embrace oversight of sporting issues, engineering coordination, driver administration, race technique and storage operations, in addition to on-track media and accomplice actions, an announcement stated.
McNish is a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, as soon as with Audi’s sister model Porsche and twice with Audi, and he was the 2013 world endurance champion.
He raced in F1 for Toyota in 2002, and was crew principal of Audi’s Method E crew. He retains his position as the top of the corporate’s younger driver programme.
In his new position, McNish will report back to Mattia Binotto, who has been given a brand new position of chief government officer and crew principal of the Audi F1 crew.
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McNish’s position is the newest in on the Audi F1 undertaking because it was introduced in 2022.
He stated: “This can be a marque which means so much to me and it’s an honour to have the ability to signify Audi and our companions on probably the most prestigious stage in motorsports.
“That is an thrilling problem at a pivotal second within the historical past of Audi and F1, and I’m trying ahead to contributing much more on to our trackside efficiency.
“The undertaking we’re constructing is bold, and my focus might be on guaranteeing that every one points of our race operations are delivering at their best degree and repeatedly enhancing.”
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Binotto stated: “Allan brings an distinctive mixture of racing expertise, technical understanding and management to this position. He has been a central a part of the motorsport construction of Audi for a few years and has performed a key position in shaping our preparation for F1, not least along with his work round technical partnerships.”
