Former Method 1 driver Allan McNish has been named racing director of the Audi F1 group.
The transfer follows the departure of Jonathan Wheatley as group 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 mission since its inception.
He’ll begin in his new function on the subsequent race, the Miami Grand Prix on 1-3 Might. His duties will embody oversight of sporting issues, engineering coordination, driver administration, race technique and storage operations, in addition to on-track media and associate 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 group principal of Audi’s Method E group. He retains his function as the pinnacle of the corporate’s younger driver programme.
