{"id":428017,"date":"2026-01-23T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:25:09","slug":"dan-fallows-ex-red-bull-joins-racing-bulls-after-aston-martin-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/428017\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Fallows, ex-Red Bull, joins Racing Bulls after Aston Martin exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769171109_569_edmondson_laurence_m.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Laurence EdmondsonJan 23, 2026, 05:28 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022\u00a0An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011<\/p>\n<p>Former Aston Martin and Red Bull engineer Dan Fallows will join Racing Bulls as its new technical director in April this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fallows worked closely with Adrian Newey at Red Bull between 2006 and 2021 before leaving for Aston Martin where he started work as its technical director in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He was partly credited for the team&#8217;s quick turnaround between the 2022 and 2023 seasons, but a slump in results in 2024 saw his removal from the position in November that year.<\/p>\n<p>His position at the head of Aston Martin&#8217;s technical team was replaced by the arrival of Newey as a shareholder as well as former Ferrari technical director Enrico Cardile.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief stint Aston Martin Performance Technologies, he left the company entirely and on Friday was announced in his new role at Red Bull&#8217;s junior team reporting to chief technical officer Tim Goss.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Dan Fallows only lasted three years at Aston Martin.\u00a0Gongora\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Racing Bull&#8217;s former technical director Jody Egginton left the team in April, 2025 to become engineering director at Red Bull Advanced Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very pleased to be joining VCARB at an exciting time for the team,&#8221; Fallows said. &#8220;There is a clear vision and strong technical ambition, and I&#8217;m looking forward to working closely with Tim and the wider engineering group to help drive performance and continue building the team for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47694889\/2026-f1-cars-mercedes-w17-makes-debut-track-run-silverstone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Mercedes F1 car makes track debut<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47691665\/martin-brundle-lewis-hamilton-engineer-needed-change\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brundle on Hamilton engineer: It had to change<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/47690243\/mercedes-f1-title-challenger-first-images-george-russell-kimi-antonelli-2026-car-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes reveal new F1 car, major Microsoft deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team principal Alan Permane added: &#8220;Dan has a wealth of experience, and his technical understanding and leadership will be a real asset to the team as we continue to develop and push forward competitively. We&#8217;re delighted to welcome him to VCARB.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Racing Bulls&#8217; 2026 car hit the track for the first time this week during a demonstration run and a filming day at the Imola circuit near its base in northern Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laurence EdmondsonJan 23, 2026, 05:28 AM ET Close\u2022\u00a0Joined ESPN in 2009\u2022\u00a0An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-428017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}