Andrea Stella (born 22 February 1971) is an Italian engineer, currently employed by McLaren Racing Limited as Team Principal. He was previously Performance Engineer and Race Engineer at

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Education

He graduated in aerospace engineering at La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2000, he completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with an experimental study on fluid dynamics of flames.

Formula One career

Scuderia Ferrari

He began his career at Ferrari in 2000 as Performance Engineer for the test team, before being Performance Engineer for

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(2002–2006) then

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(2007–2008). He moved to become Race Engineer for Räikkönen (2009), before becoming Race Engineer for

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(2010–2014). In 2006, he also worked as track engineer with

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, when the motorcyclist had a test with Ferrari.

McLaren Racing

He joined McLaren in 2015 as Head of Race Operations, moving to Performance Director in 2018 and Racing Director in 2019. In the latter role, he formed a triumvirate with James Key as Technical Director and Piers Thynne as Production Director, all under Team Principal Andreas Seidl. On 13 December 2022, he was announced to replace Seidl as Team Principal of McLaren.

References

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