Allan Mcnish is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in WEC for Audi Sport Team Joest. Mcnish has recorded 4 wins and 14 podiums from 33 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,669 ranks Mcnish 589th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2013-11-30 | BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT · LMP1 | DNF | −5 |
| 2013-11-09 | SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT · LMP1 | P3 | −5 |
| 2013-10-20 | FUJI SPEED WAY · LMP1 | P2 | +9 |
| 2013-09-22 | CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS · LMP1 | P1 | +29 |
| 2013-09-01 | INTERLAGOS · LMP1 | P2 | +11 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | ▸WEC | Audi Sport Team Joest | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +105 | 4,669 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | Audi Sport Team Joest | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +307 | 4,564 |
| 2002 | ▸Formula 1 | Toyota | 17 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | P19 | −543 | 4,257 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇪 André Lotterer | 5,687 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 40% |
| 🇩🇪 Nick Heidfeld | 5,452 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 60% |
| 🇫🇷 Benoît Tréluyer | 4,802 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 40% |
| 🇨🇭 Marcel Fässler | 4,072 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 40% |
| 🇫🇷 Nicolas Prost | 4,505 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇮🇹 Andrea Belicchi | 3,207 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇨🇭 Neel Jani | 4,815 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇬🇧 Danny Watts | 3,513 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇬🇧 Nick Leventis | 3,491 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇬🇧 Jonny Kane | 3,082 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 100% |
Allan McNish is a retired British racing driver who competed across single-seaters and endurance racing over eleven years on record. His career centered on the World Endurance Championship from 2012 to 2013, where he proved a professional-level competitor in the sport's strongest prototype field. Over sixteen WEC starts he won four races and reached the podium fourteen times, including three victories and seven podiums across the final eight rounds of 2013. His head-to-head record in WEC showed mixed results against the series' elite; he finished ahead of Sébastien Buemi, a six-time champion, in five shared races, and held a winning record against Bertrand Baguette and Mark Webber, both significantly higher-rated drivers, though across limited numbers of races. He also exceeded Nick Heidfeld, a front-running professional, more often than not over fifteen races together. Conversely, Nicolas Prost and Andrea Belicchi finished ahead of him in every shared race, establishing bounds on his competitive standing.[1]
His single-seater career was markedly less successful. McNish made seventeen Formula 1 starts for Toyota in 2002, a backmarking team that failed to score a race win across its entire tenure in the database, and he secured neither wins nor podiums in that campaign. His average finishing position across all thirty-three career starts was fifth, a figure bolstered substantially by his WEC results; the Formula 1 stint alone dragged his standing considerably lower within a championship-level field.[2]
Since retirement from driving in 2013, McNish has worked as a team principal and latterly as a racing director, appointed to Audi's Formula 1 programme in 2026 where his experience in endurance racing and long-form motorsport management now applies to the single-seater discipline.