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2021 Formula 1 Power List

September 21, 2021

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The 2021 Formula 1 power List is here. Paddock magazine presents its tenth 100 Most Influential People in Formula 1 list. It’s our very own annual register of the most powerful people in the industry.

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Since 2010 Paddock magazine, Formula 1’s business & lifestyle monthly, had compiled an annual list of the most powerful people in Formula 1. Places are allocated based on the amount of human, managerial and financial resources that they have sway over, as well as their influence on the sport.

To determine the ranking, we considered more than 200 of the most influential players in Formula 1, and we evaluated their influence by using metrics in four major areas: economic power, command, newsworthiness, and impact — a subjective measure that captures how important they are in their respective positions.

We’ve gathered a team of experts of the racing business for this occasion: after a lot of research, the team sent an online survey for motorsport professionals, and then tweaked the final results.

The 2021 Formula 1 Power list is fully searchable by name, country, occupation, age, etc… Click on the names or photos for full bios, and most importantly, enjoy!

Rank	Change	Name	Occupation	Company	Country	Age
1.	No change	Greg Maffei	President and CEO	Liberty Media	USA	60
2.	New	Stefano Domenicali	President and CEO	Formula 1	Italy	56
3.	Up	Jean Todt	President	FIA	France	75
4.	No change	Ola Kaellenius	Chairman of the Board of Management	Daimler AG	Sweden	51
5.	Up	John Elkann	Chairman and CEO	EXOR, Stellantis	USA	45
6.	Down	Dietrich Mateschitz	Managing Director	Red Bull GmbH	Austria	76
7.	Up	Lawrence Stroll	Executive Chairman	Aston Martin Lagonda	Canada	61
8.	New	Luca di Meo	Chairman and CEO	Groupe Renault	Italy	53
9.	Up	Mattia Binotto	Team Principal	Scuderia Ferrari	Italy	51
10.	Down	Toto Wolff	Team Principal and CEO	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Austria	49
11.	Down	Ross Brawn	Managing Director of Motor Sports	Formula 1	UK	66
12.	Up	Lewis Hamilton	Driver	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	UK	36
13.	Up	Zak Brown	CEO	McLaren Racing	USA	49
14.	New	Carlos Tavares	CEO	Stellantis	Portugal	62
15.	Up	Helmut Marko	Consultant	Red Bull GmbH	Austria	78
16.	Up	Gene Haas	Owner	Haas F1 Team, Haas Automotive	USA	68
17.	Down	Christian Horner	Team Principal	Red Bull Racing	UK	47
18.	New	Laurent Rossi	CEO	Alpine	France	45
19.	New	Sultan Ojjeh	Director	McLaren Group	France	29
20.	New	Toshihiro Mibe	CEO and President	Honda	Japan	58
21.	Up	Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	Crown Prince	Kingdom of Bahrain	Bahrain	51
22.	No change	Otmar Szafnauer	CEO and Team Principal	Aston Martin F1 Team	Romania	56
23.	No change	Guenther Steiner	Team Principal	Haas F1 Team	Italy	56
24.	Up	Max Verstappen	Driver	Red Bull Racing	Netherlands	23
25.	Up	Frédéric Vasseur	Team Principal and CEO	Alfa Romeo Racing	France	52
26.	New	Mike Elliott	Technical Director	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	UK	46
27.	Down	Chase Carey	Non-Executive Chairman	Formula 1	USA	67
28.	Up	Charles Leclerc	Driver	Scuderia Ferrari	Monaco	23
29.	New	Brian Humphries	CEO	Cognizant	UK	46
30.	New	Hywel Thomas	Managing Director	Mercedes-Benz AMG HPP	UK	49
31.	Down	Jean-Frédéric Dufour	CEO	Rolex	Switzerland	53
32.	Up	Sir Jackie Stewart	Brand Ambassador	Rolex	Scotland	81
33.	Up	Robin Fenwick	CEO	Right Formula	UK	41
34.	Down	Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum	CEO	Emirates Group	UAE	62
35.	Up	Franz Tost	Team Principal	Scuderia AlphaTauri	Austria	65
36.	New	Dolf Van Den Brink	CEO and Chairman	Heineken	Netherlands	48
37.	Up	Andreas Seidl	Team Principal	McLaren Racing	Germany	45
38.	Up	Frank Appel	CEO and Chairman	Deutsche Post DHL Group	Germany	59
39.	Up	Carlos Slim Helú	CEO	Telmex, América Móvil, and Grupo Carso	Mexico	81
40.	New	Amin H. Nasser	CEO and President	Aramco	Saudi Arabia	61
41.	Up	Michel Boeri	President	Automobile Club De Monaco	Monaco	79
42.	Down	Sebastian Vettel	Driver	Aston Martin F1 Team	Germany	33
43.	New	Alexey Titov	Executive Director	RosGonki	Russia	41
44.	Up	Masashi Yamamoto	Managing Director	Honda F1	Japan	57
45.	Up	Valtteri Bottas	Driver	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	Finland	31
46.	Up	Stuart Pringle	Managing Director	Silverstone Circuits	UK	45
47.	Down	Sacha Woodward Hill	General Counsel	Formula 1	UK	52
48.	New	Paul Walsh	Executive Chairman	McLaren Group	UK	66
49.	Up	Bobby Epstein	Chairman	Circuit of the Americas	USA	61
50.	New	Jacek Olczak	CEO	Philip Morris International	Poland	56
51.	New	Tengku Muhammad Taufik	President and CEO	Petronas	Malaysia	46
52.	Up	Duncan Llowarch	Chief Financial Officer	Formula 1	UK	53
53.	Re-entry	Fernando Alonso	Driver	Alpine F1 Team	Spain	39
54.	New	Khaldoon Al Mubarak	CEO and Managing Director	Mubadala	UAE	46
55.	Up	Ian Holmes	Director of Media Rights	Formula 1	UK	54
56.	Down	Bernie Ecclestone	Chairman Emeritus	Formula 1	UK	90
57.	New	Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Al Faisal	President	Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation	Saudi Arabia	48
58.	Up	Kimi Räikkönen	Driver	Alfa Romeo Racing	Finland	41
59.	Up	Ben Pincus	Director, Commercial Partnerships	Formula 1	UK	52
60.	Up	Hermann Tilke	Director and Partner	Tilke GmbH	Germany	66
61.	New	Jost Capito	CEO	Williams Racing	Germany	62
62.	New	Marcin Budkowski	Executive Director	Alpine F1 Team	Poland	44
63.	Up	Adrian Newey	Chief Technical Officer	Red Bull Racing	UK	62
64.	New	Tobias Moers	CEO	Aston Martin Lagonda	Germany	55
65.	New	Dmitry Mazepin	Owner and Chairman	Uralchem	Russia	53
66.	Up	Ellie Norman	Director of Marketing	Formula 1	UK	40
67.	Up	Sheikh Salman bin Isa al Khalifa	CEO	Bahrain International Circuit	Bahrain	51
68.	Up	Alejandro Agag	CEO	Formula E	Spain	51
69.	Up	Daniel Ricciardo	Driver	McLaren Racing	Australia	31
70.	Up	Rob Thomas	COO	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	UK	53
71.	Down	David Coulthard	TV Presenter, Brand Ambassador	Whisper TV	UK	50
72.	New	Ricardo Nunes	Mayor	São Paulo	Brazil	53
73.	Up	Martin Brundle	Expert Analyst	Sky Sports	UK	62
74.	Down	Ron Meadows	Sporting Director	Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team	UK	57
75.	Re-entry	Nico Rosberg	TV Presenter	Sky Sports & RTL	Monaco	35
76.	Up	Keith Bruce	President	F1 Experiences	USA	55
77.	New	Jan Lammers	Sporting Director	Dutch Grand Prix	Netherlands	64
78.	New	Carlos Sainz Jr	Driver	Scuderia Ferrari	Spain	26
79.	Up	James Allen	President	Motorsport Network	UK	54
80.	Up	Anthony Indaimo	Partner	Withers Worldwide	UK	57
81.	New	Jefferson Slack	Managing Director Commercial	Aston Martin F1 Team	USA	57
82.	New	Davide Brivio	Sporting Director	Alpine F1 Team	Italy	56
83.	New	Ignacio Rueda	Sporting Director	Scuderia Ferrari	Spain	42
84.	New	Lance Stroll	Driver	Aston Martin F1 Team	Canada	22
85.	Up	Kate Beavan	Global Director, Hospitality & Experinces	Formula 1	UK	53
86.	New	Jock Clear	Head of Race Activities	Scuderia Ferrari	UK	57
87.	New	James Matthews	CEO	Eden Rock Group	UK	45
88.	New	Bernard Looney	CEO	BP Castrol	Ireland	51
89.	New	Sergio Perez	Driver	Red Bull Racing	Mexico	31
90.	Up	Rob Marshall	Chief Engineering Officer	Red Bull Racing	UK	53
91.	New	Sir Jim Ratcliffe	Chairman and CEO	Ineos	UK	68
92.	Up	Enrico Zanarini	Founder and CEO	Media & Sport Management	Italy	68
93.	New	Daniel Obajtek	President	PKN Orlen	Poland	45
94.	Re-entry	Yath Gangakumaran	Director, Strategy and Business Development	Formula 1	UK	32
95.	Down	Mario Isola	Head of Formula 1 and Car Racing	Pirelli Tyre	Italy	51
96.	Down	James Key	Executive Director, Technical	McLaren Racing	UK	49
97.	Down	Chloe Targett-Adams	Global Director of Race Promotion	Formula 1	UK	39
98.	New	Andrea Stella	Racing Director	McLaren Racing	Italy	50
99.	Re-entry	Alain Prost	Special Advisor	Alpine F1 Team	France	66
100.	New	Lando Norris	Driver	McLaren Racing	UK	21
Rank	Change	Name	Occupation	Company	Country	Age

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The ones to watch:

Rank	Name	Occupation	Company	Country	Age
1.	Benedetto Vigna	CEO	Ferrari	Italy	52
2.	Nicolas Todt	Founder	All Road Management	France	43
3.	Luca Furbatto	Engineering Director	Aston Martin F1 Team	Italy	50
4.	Andreas Weissenbacher	CEO	Best Water Technology	Austria	61
5.	Christiano Fiorio	Senior Vice President -Marketing	Stellantis	Italy
6.	Ahmet Mercan	CEO	AlphaTauri	Austria
7.	Tom Garfinkel	Managing Partner	Miami Grand Prix	USA	52
8.	Mohammed Ben Sulayem	Presidential Candidate	FIA	UAE	59