{"id":400453,"date":"2026-01-08T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:31:10","slug":"ex-max-verstappen-mechanic-lands-significant-f1-role-with-audi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400453\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Max Verstappen mechanic lands significant F1 role with Audi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former chief mechanic to Max Verstappen at Red Bull, Lee Stevenson, has landed a significant new role with Formula 1<\/a> new boys Audi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stevenson, who worked closely with the Dutchman, moved to Sauber two years ago, as preparations began to transition into the German marque<\/a>\u2018s works entry.<\/p>\n

Alongside fellow ex-Red Bull man and Audi Team Principal Jonathan Wheatley, Stevenson has been chief mechanic at the Hinwil-based squad in that time.<\/p>\n

But with wheels very much in motion in terms of preparations for its F1 bow, Audi has made the decision to promote Stevenson to Team Manager.<\/p>\n

Audi will benefit from a large degree of continuity, as much of the key personnel is set to remain with the team amid the long-awaited identity shift.<\/p>\n

\"AudiAudi has had a busy week so far, and will continue to be with a shakedown planned for Friday<\/p>\n

It has been a busy week already for Audi, with the announcement on Wednesday that it fired up the engine that will power its R26 challenger for the first time on December 19.<\/p>\n

The team will also unveil the R26 in Berlin on January 20, before the first official pre-season test the following week, which takes place at the Circuit de-Barcelona Catalunya.<\/p>\n

But before that, hectic schedule this week is set to continue, as it is reportedly utilising some of its allocated filming days per the F1 rules to perform a shakedown at the same circuit on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 Exclusive: Jonathan Wheatley \u2013 the \u2018car guy\u2019 who revels in his rise to F1 team boss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former chief mechanic to Max Verstappen at Red Bull, Lee Stevenson, has landed a significant new role with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,40856,63,817,825,806,805,803,804,85,197960],"class_list":{"0":"post-400453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-audi","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-max-verstappen","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-stevenson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}