{"id":625814,"date":"2026-04-24T15:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:42:13","slug":"allan-mcnish-named-audi-racing-director-after-jonathan-wheatley-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625814\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan McNish named Audi racing director after Jonathan Wheatley departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Formula 1 driver Allan McNish has been named racing director of the Audi F1 team.<\/p>\n

The move follows the departure of Jonathan Wheatley<\/a> as team principal last month.<\/p>\n

McNish, 56, is a long-time Audi employee who has had a role advising the company’s board for many years. The Scot has been involved in the German company’s F1 project since its inception.<\/p>\n

He will start in his new role at the next race, the Miami Grand Prix on 1-3 May. His responsibilities will include oversight of sporting matters, engineering coordination, driver management, race strategy and garage operations, as well as on-track media and partner activities, a statement said.<\/p>\n

McNish is a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, once with Audi’s sister brand Porsche and twice with Audi, and he was the 2013 world endurance champion.<\/p>\n

He raced in F1 for Toyota in 2002, and was team principal of Audi’s Formula E team. He retains his role as the head of the company’s young driver programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Formula 1 driver Allan McNish has been named racing director of the Audi F1 team. The move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-625814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}