Verstappen’s race engineer is LEAVING Red Bull for McLaren… what happens next?
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What major news about Gianpiero Lambiase is discussed?
Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. You thought we'd gone, but no. Emergency podcast. And it's got nothing to do with drivers, or maybe it will. But this is big. Jampiero Lambiasi, otherwise known as GP, is leaving Red Bull. And this could have pretty huge consequences for the rest of the F1 grid, the personnel, a lot of moves. This could be another domino, Tommy.
It could absolutely be another domino effect of the whole of Formula 1, which is brilliant because the little behind-the-scenes details bit of info we recorded our 2029 prediction and right at the end I said can't wait for a massive domino effect now to happen and sure enough literally the day after it begins so yeah here we are
Now, if you're wondering why a race engineer leaving deserves an emergency podcast, well, it's been heavily reported that he has signed a huge multi-million pound deal with McLaren for 2028, which is absolute madness. Did not expect this on a random midweek. chill day and it's just been like boom I think the first person I saw post about it was Kim Illman and then it's all sort of just come out since then and what a step up that would be and to McLaren of all teams as well so if you're unaware you know if you're new to Formula One or whatever let me give you a little bit of a background of who Giampiero Lambiassi is so basically he is Max Verstappen's race engineer at Red Bull and has been since 2016 and
And they've been lauded as a great partnership, similar to Lewis Hamilton and Bono. So they are an iconic Formula One duo. And I mean, we'll get on to Max Verstappen. This is not his news, but I feel like it might well give us some indication of what's maybe going on in his life. So let's get into our first thoughts on GP leaving Red Bull. As I kind of mentioned, I'm pretty shocked to sort of see this just so randomly. I've noticed in the reports that both McLaren and Red Bull have declined to comment as of right now.
That's always confirmed then.
What implications does GP's move to McLaren have for Red Bull?
It was not supposed to come out. It's really fascinating that GP has gone of all teams to McLaren, the team that were Max and GP's biggest rivals in that championship fight last year. And it just shows that they see a lot in him as the next guy. And McLaren have obviously seen that. And like much of the Formula One grid and a lot recently, and particularly seems to be Red Bull losing a lot of people. You know, they've lost many to McLaren. Obviously, Rob Marshall was a key figure who they lost to McLaren in the first place that many believers kind of turned McLaren's fortune around and why they're so successful. and were so good to win those championships. And then, of course, everything of that whole team blowing up anyway with Adrian Newey leaving and Wheatley leaving and Horner being sacked and all this kind of stuff and Marco going.
It is crazy to think it's another huge name.
at Red Bull going that is probably a big learning curve for GP and also a big moment for McLaren you have to feel as well with it being halfway through the regulations potentially at this point unless we've torn them all up put V10s in the back of them and gone for sustainable fuels who knows the meetings today so Yeah, well, there you go. We might have multiple emergency podcasts depending on what comes out. But that's kind of where I'm sitting at the moment, that it is a big shake-up and I would say more so on the McLaren side because of this big role that GP has to fill because Andrea Stella has done an unbelievable job since taking the role of team principal. I think some people quite rightly get confused as to who does what at McLaren because Zac Brown is the one that always does the interviews.
But he takes away, I guess he loves the spotlight. Let's be real here. We've seen the latest series of Drive to Survive. My guy loves the camera. But in a way, it feeds Zac's ego and things like that. But it also does take away the pressure from Andrea Stella most of the time unless Ted gets a microphone in front of him after a race.
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