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Oscar Piastri & Tom Stallard An Olympic medallist turned engineer, paired with Piastri for every one of his Formula 1 races.
Since his 2023 debut[1] 4 seasons Oscar Piastri’s driver profile →
Results Together Since his 2023 debut. Grand Prix starts only.
2026 season Championship position and points include sprints.
Driver career Since 2023, with every team and engineer.
Up to round 17, Singapore Grand Prix (2026-10-11).[2]
On the radio Singapore Grand Prix, 2025 · After first-lap contact with team-mate Norris. Piastri Are we cool with Lando barging me out of the way, or ... what's the go there?
Stallard Oscar, we are looking at it. Let me get back to you.
Stallard I need you to focus on what we can do here. Control the controllables, mate.
Piastri That's not fair. Sorry, that's not fair.
Stallard Oscar, opportunity to review together. Focus on this race, mate.
Transcript as published[3]
Race engineer Tom Stallard British
Oscar Piastri's race engineer at McLaren.[1]
Education University of Cambridge; later returned to university for a master’s in motorsport engineering.[4] [5]
Career 1999–2008 International rower: twice a Boat Race winner with Cambridge, ninth at Athens 2004, Olympic silver in the men’s eight at Beijing 2008.[4] [5] 2008 Joined McLaren as a simulator test engineer, then became Jenson Button’s performance engineer.[4] [1] 2014–22 Race engineer to Button, then Stoffel Vandoorne, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo.[4] 2023– Race engineer to Piastri from his debut.[1] Previously engineered Jenson Button, Stoffel Vandoorne, Carlos Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo
Also Born in London on 11 September 1978.[4] Performance engineer Not publicly confirmed His long-time performance engineer Cedric Michel-Grosjean left McLaren for Ferrari; a 2026 successor has not been publicly confirmed.[6] [7]
Engineering lead at McLaren Will Joseph Race engineering director (also Norris’s race engineer)[8]