F1 Race Team

Atop Formula One team employs between 600 and 900 people who work within dozens of departments: design, drawing, manufacture, marketing, administration, travel, information technology, electronics, accounting, systems, test teams, race teams and more. Since the numbers employed exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, running a team went way beyond the control of a single person. Structured managerial systems had to be imposed to keep track of all the various facets of what is both a business and a sport. Nevertheless, teams are headed by individuals who have their own individual visions and circumstances. In addition, the teams themselves come from differing historical backgrounds. For these reasons, even though every Formula One team today is run as a highly structured managed business, no two teams are alike. Each has its own very unique way of doing things and its own structure. No “Formula One team blueprint” exists that can explain how all teams work. Taking all these variables into account, we simply provide a loose explanation of the team structure and the folks involved.
There are no set rules governing team structure and no single definition of what the various titles mean. One team may use a title differently than another team. Titles are just labels that make sense only when related to other labels within the same team. Usually, a team’s structure is built around the nature of the skills of the people at the top rather than force-fitting individuals into a pre-defined structure.