The role of an F1 race engineer is crucial to a driver’s weekend, but who are the voices in the ears of all 20 racers on the grid?

While some play a background role, there are others who have become famous in their own right as their radio messages reach millions of viewers. Here’s all 20 drivers and the race engineer in their ears.

F1 race engineers: Which engineer works with each driver?

McLaren

Lando Norris – Will Joseph

Will Joseph has worked with Lando Norris for his Formula 1 career to date, having been the voice in his ear since his rookie season in 2019.

Joseph had worked with the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Kevin Magnussen and Sergio Perez as race team performance engineer at McLaren beforehand, having been with the Woking-based team since 2010.

Oscar Piastri – Tom Stallard

Oscar Piastri’s arrival into F1 saw him link up with Tom Stallard and, unlike Norris, Piastri has only heard Stallard’s voice in his ears.

Before Piastri, Stallard – an Olympic rowing silver medallist before moving into the F1 world full-time – operated in the same role for Daniel Ricciardo and first joined McLaren in September 2008 as a simulator test engineer.

He quickly moved up the ladder until he became race engineer for Button and later for Stoffel Vandoorne and Carlos Sainz.

Ferrari

Charles Leclerc – Bryan Bozzi

Taking over from Xavi Marcos Padros in Charles Leclerc’s ear in May 2024 was Bryan Bozzi, who was no stranger to Formula 1 with already 12 years’ experience under his belt by the time he became Leclerc’s race engineer.

He began with Ferrari as a wind tunnel research and development engineer in 2012, and with Marcos having been moved to a different part of Ferrari, became Leclerc’s race engineer.

Lewis Hamilton – Riccardo Adami

Riccardo Adami’s history in Formula 1 dates back to 2002 when he joined Minardi and became their race engineer in 2005.

After the team was taken over by Red Bull and turned into Toro Rosso, Adami continued to work in the same role, going on to work with the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo.

He would reunite with Vettel at Ferrari in 2015 and then after the German departed for Aston Martin, Adami stayed on to become race engineer for Carlos Sainz, and subsequently Lewis Hamilton.

Red Bull

Max Verstappen – GianPiero ‘GP’ Lambiase

GianPiero Lambiase, or ‘GP’ as he is more commonly known, has been in Verstappen’s ear ever since the Dutchman moved up to Red Bull in 2016.

Before Verstappen, Lambiase was race engineer for Daniil Kvyat and has actually fulfilled the same role with Sergio Perez at Force India.

Born in London with a dual British-Italian nationality, GP has become known for his straight-talking style with Verstappen who has been prone to more than one outburst while on track.

But after the helmet has come off, the two have proven to be good friends, with team boss Christian Horner likening the two to an ‘old married couple’ on multiple occasions.

Liam Lawson – Richard Wood

Richard Wood filled in for Hugh Bird as race engineer to Sergio Perez at select events in the 2024 season, but with Bird expected to move to a factory-based role at Red Bull, PlanetF1.com understands Wood is likely to step up to be Lawson’s race engineer.

Previously a performance engineer within Red Bull, this would represent a promotion for Wood.

Mercedes

Kimi Antonelli – Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington

Sharing the accolade of most famous race engineer along with Lambiase is Peter Bonnington or, as he is better known, ‘Bono’.

“My tyres are gone, Bono” has become part of the F1 lexicon and Bono’s relationship with Lewis Hamilton dates back to 2013, with the two combining for six World Championships together, before taking on the same role for Andrea Kimi Antonelli in his rookie season.

Coining the phrase “it’s Hammertime”, Bono has quite the CV having fulfilled the same role for Michael Schumacher before Hamilton. Before that, he was performance engineer for Jenson Button when he won the World Championship in 2009 for Brawn.

Bono’s F1 career dates back to the early 2000s when he joined Jordan as a data engineer before moving to Honda and linking up with Andrew Shovlin.

George Russell – Marcus Dudley

Having had Riccardo Musconi guide him through his debut year with Mercedes, Russell switched race engineers at the start of 2023 and brought in Marcus Dudley.

Dudley followed a familiar route into the role having started as a performance engineer in 2013 before moving to be race engineer after 10 years in his former role.

Dudley had previous experience of race engineering having stepped in for Bono at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2022 and the 2019 Mexican Grand Prix.

Aston Martin

Note: Aston Martin signed former Haas engineer Gary Gannon as senior race engineer in January 2025, but at time of publication, PlanetF1.com understands a decision had not yet been made public over which driver with whom Gannon would work – with Aston’s 2024 race engineers listed below.

Fernando Alonso – TBC

After switching to Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso was allocated to Chris Cronin as his race engineer, with Alonso previously stating the importance of a race engineer in the relationship a driver has with the team.

“I think they need to become nearly a friend of the driver,” he said.

“They’re your continuation outside the car, 100%.”

Lance Stroll – TBC

Long-term fans of F1 may think that Brad Joyce was still Lance Stroll’s race engineer, but Joyce moved to become head of trackside engineering in 2021 and in his place stepped Ben Michell, who shared duties with Andrew Vizard on Stroll’s side of the garage.

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Alpine

Jack Doohan – Josh Peckett

Beginning first as Esteban Ocon’s performance engineer, Josh Peckett moved up to race engineer in February 2021 at the same time the brand switched to Alpine.

Peckett is likely to continue in the role as Jack Doohan takes on the seat Ocon vacates at Alpine.

Pierre Gasly – John Howard

Pierre Gasly currently works with John Howard as Alpine race engineer, with Howard holding more than a decade of experience at Team Enstone.

Formerly a mechanical design engineer, Howard worked his way up through the ranks to take on the role of race engineer for Gasly from the 2024 season.

Haas

Oliver Bearman – Ronan O’Hare

After previous engineer Gary Gannon departed Haas, the team announced an all-new race engineer line-up to go with their two new drivers for the 2025 season.

An experienced engineer, Ronan O’Hare is taking on race engineer duties with Ollie Bearman in his rookie season in Formula 1 – having had experience at the likes of Mercedes, Toro Rosso and Williams in years gone by in different roles.

Esteban Ocon – Laura Mueller

Esteban Ocon and Laura Mueller will form a partnership that will be a long-awaited Formula 1 first, with Mueller being the first female race engineer to work with a driver in this capacity.

Mueller was promoted from within at Haas, having worked in a simulator role beforehand.

Team principal Ayao Komatsu told select media including PlanetF1.com of her promotion: “Laura, she’s a pretty determined character, and she’s very hard-working. Her work ethic is really, really good.

“What she’s really good at is so when she sees the problem, she digs deep and she doesn’t stop at the first answer.

“She has a good work ethic that when she finds the first solution, she knows that there’s 10 things now and you got new questions to answer. So her determination is the one that impressed me the most.”

Racing Bulls

Yuki Tsunoda – Ernesto Desiderio

Mattia Spini had been the voice in Yuki Tsunoda’s ears since his debut in 2021, but a promotion for both Spini and Ernesto Desiderio ahead of the 2024 Italian Grand Prix saw the latter take on the role of race engineer for the VCARB driver.

Desiderio had previously worked with Romain Grosjean at Haas, and released a book in 2021, featuring a foreword from the Frenchman, entitled: Formula One Race Engineering: Optimizing a Driver’s Performance with a Winning Method.

Isack Hadjar – Pierre Hamelin

Pierre Hamelin is set to work with Isack Hadjar in 2025, which will be his fourth different driver partner since the 2023 season.

Starting with Nyck de Vries, Hamelin then became Daniel Ricciardo’s race engineer in Hungary but when the Australian broke his hand in Zandvoort, Hamelin took on his second rookie of the year in the form of Liam Lawson.

Williams

Alex Albon – James Urwin

A man with plenty of experience is Alex Albon’s race engineer James Urwin who joined Williams in 2014 as a performance engineer.

In 2017, he became race engineer for Lance Stroll before continuing on in the same role for George Russell when the young Brit joined.

When Russell moved to Mercedes, Urwin kept his place as Albon arrived.

Carlos Sainz – Gaetan Jego

Jego started his F1 career at ART Grand Prix before moving to Williams in October 2019, and has fulfilled engineering duties for Nicholas Latifi, Logan Sargeant and Franco Colapinto to date.

Jego is likely to fulfil similar duties with Carlos Sainz in the F1 2025 season, following his move from Ferrari.

Kick Sauber

Gabriel Bortoleto – TBC

Nico Hulkenberg – TBC 

Sauber are yet to confirm which race engineers will be partnering with their all-new F1 2025 line-up at time of publication, with Steven Petrik and Jorn Becker having been in the ears of previous drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu beforehand.

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