The Latest Breaking News from Peter Prodromou

From the outside, Andrea Stella's tenure as a McLaren team boss has looked pretty straightforward.

Over 20 years ago, when Adrian Newey worked at McLaren, a story went around the Formula 1 paddock that he had effectively locked himself in his office with his drawing board. Once he’d finished sketching a design, went the gossip, he pushed it through a letterbox for collection by aero…

The McLaren Formula 1 team has extended the contract of its aerodynamics chief Peter Prodromou, who played a key part in its 2024 constructors' title.

"That's a huge milestone."

Who’d have thought – just a year ago, when they were still suffering a ‘Jag Rac’ hangover – that early in 2007 Red Bull Racing would be fighting against the notion that they’re going to do rather well this season? For all that the creation of a modern F1 car…

Formerly Ferrari's chief of vehicle concept, Sanchez was initially hired by McLaren in March 2023, and finally re-joined his former team in January after completing his gardening leave period.

Sanchez joined McLaren from Ferrari in January among a series of hires to augment the team's engineering staff, but it became apparent that his duties as the technical director in charge of concept and performance were "not aligned" to those discussed previously. Team principal Andrea Stella will thus assume Sanchez's duties…

Stella took over last winter to replace Andreas Seidl, who departed to head up Audi's 2026 entry with Sauber.

In the past, McLaren operated a three-person structure with Tim Goss, Matt Morris and Peter Prodromou working alongside each other.