F1 race engineers: Who do we hear speaking to all 22 F1 drivers on team radio?

The role of an F1 race engineer is crucial to a driver’s weekend, but who are the voices in the ears of all 22 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 21 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 all of 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 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.

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 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 Marcus Dudley stepped in.

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.

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 former team boss Christian Horner likening the two to an ‘old married couple’ on multiple occasions.

In October 2024, Lambiase was promoted to the role of Head of Racing at Red Bull and there had been speculation that other teams were looking to poach him during the 2025 offseason.

GP though looks set to stay and the only races he has ever missed of Verstappen’s are the 2025 Belgian and Austrian Grand Prix.

Isack Hadjar – Richard Wood

Moving up to Red Bull sees Hadjar given a new race engineer to work with in the form of Richard Wood.

Wood joined Red Bull in October 2012 first as a student placement in the race strategy team but was given a full-time analyst role in September 2013.

In February 2016, he became a race support engineer before moving into a similar performance engineer role in 2020.

He then spent almost four years as a performance engineer before becoming Liam Lawson’s race engineer in January 2025. He kept that role during the Red Bull reshuffle that saw Yuki Tsunoda move into the seat and will now be in the ears of Hadjar.

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 – Unknown

The identity of Lewis Hamilton’s 2026 race engineer has yet to be revealed after Ferrari announced Riccardo Adami will be moving to a role within the team’s academy.

Before Hamilton, 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 but the two seemed to share a frosty relationship at times.

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 fulfilling similar duties with Carlos Sainz in the F1 2025 season, following his move from Ferrari.

Racing Bulls

Liam Lawson – 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.

After Liam Lawson swapped seats with Tsunoda, Desiderio is the voice in the Kiwi’s ears on race weekends.

Arvid Lindblad – Pierre Hamelin

No one knows better just how volatile the Racing Bulls seat can be than Pierre Hamelin as Arvid Lindblad will be the fifth driver he has worked with since 2023.

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.

Hadjar’s promotion in 2025 meant another new driver and with the Frenchman now at Red Bull, Hamelin will be guiding the sole 2026 rookie Lindblad.

Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso – Andrew Vizard

After switching to Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso was given 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%.”

Andrew Vizard now works with Alonso, having switched over from Lance Stroll’s side of the garage.

Lance Stroll – Gary Gannon

Gary Gannon made the switch to Aston Martin in time for the 2025 season, with the former Haas stalwart having moved across the paddock.

Gannon, who previously worked with Mick Schumacher and Nico Hulkenberg, has stepped in to become Lance Stroll’s engineer for the 2025 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 formed a partnership that was 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.”

Audi

Gabriel Bortoleto – Jose Manuel Lopez

Jose Manuel Lopez moved to Sauber for the 2025 season after leaving a previous role as head of testing at McLaren.

Lopez previously worked with Lando Norris as a performance engineer, too, even deputising for Will Joseph while he was on paternity leave.

Lopez headed to Sauber to take on his first permanent job as a race engineer, working with 2025 rookie, Gabriel Bortoleto, with the two having already worked together when the engineer was a part of the team’s driver development programme.

Nico Hulkenberg – Steven Petrik

Steven Petrik joined Sauber from Ferrari in 2024, having spent eight years with the Scuderia as a performance engineer, most recently working with Carlos Sainz.

Petrik moved to Audi predecessor Sauber and took on the role of race engineer for Valtteri Bottas, a job he continues with Nico Hulkenberg.

Alpine

Franco Colapinto – Stuart Barlow

Having spent time engineering in IndyCar, Formula E and DTM, Stuart Barlow moved to Formula 1, initially as a test team engineer at Renault, in 2019.

He moved up to become performance engineer for Esteban Ocon in 2021, before becoming a race engineer for the first time alongside Jack Doohan.

After Doohan dropped back to a reserve role, Barlow continues in the race engineer role for Franco Colapinto.

Pierre Gasly – 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.

With Ocon having left the team, Peckett moved across to Pierre Gasly’s side of the garage, with Gasly previously having worked with John Howard.

Cadillac

Valtteri Bottas – John Howard

The arrival of an 11th team in Formula 1 brings two more race engineers for us to hear and on Valtteri Bottas’ side of the garage there is John Howard.

Before Cadillac, Howard spent more than 14 years at Alpine, latterly in a race engineer role for Pierre Gasly.

Sergio Perez – Carlo Pasetti

On Perez’s side of the garage, he has a familiar voice in his ears as he worked with Carlo Pasetti at Racing Point.

Pasetti was Checo’s performance engineer and stayed at the team for the rebrand to Aston Martin while Perez went off to Red Bull.

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