{"id":849910,"date":"2026-08-07T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849910\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:44:11","slug":"report-red-bull-finds-gianpiero-lambiase-f1-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849910\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Bull finds Gianpiero Lambiase F1 replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull is reportedly preparing to recruit Aston Martin&#8217;s Tom McCullough as its new head of race engineering, replacing Gianpiero Lambiase, who is set to move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mclaren\/10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by German publication <a href=\"https:\/\/m.bild.de\/sport\/mehr-sport\/formel-1-weil-vertrauter-von-max-verstappen-geht-red-bull-besetzt-schluesselstelle-neu-6a7445c43013d32d67882060?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-custom-text=\"1\">BILD<\/a>, McCullough has been identified as the person to take over the management of Red Bull&#8217;s\u00a0trackside engineering operations.<\/p>\n<p>The report states, &#8220;McCullough would be responsible for all operational matters at the racetrack and would coordinate the work of the engineers during the grands\u00a0prix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The potential move follows recent reports that the British engineer will leave his current position as performance director at Aston Martin\u00a0at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough has been with the Silverstone-based team for over 10 years, throughout its time as Force India, Racing Point and Aston Martin. During his time at the team, he worked in a number of trackside performance roles before he was moved away from the F1 project.<\/p>\n<p>According to his LinkedIn profile at the time, he became performance director for Aston Martin Performance Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tom-mccullough-performance-dir.jpg\" alt=\"Tom McCullough, Performance Director, Aston Martin F1 Team, gives an interview\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Tom McCullough, Performance Director, Aston Martin F1 Team, gives an interview<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Zak Mauger \/ Motorsport Images<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his time at the Silverstone outfit, McCullough served as a data engineer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/williams\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williams<\/a> before becoming a race engineer, working with drivers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/nico-hulkenberg\/9327\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nico Hulkenberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/rubens-barrichello\/64\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rubens Barrichello<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/bruno-senna\/7331\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bruno Senna<\/a>, and had a brief stint at Sauber as head of track engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Max Verstappen&#8217;s long-time race engineer Lambiase announced he would be leaving his role at Red Bull. On 9 April 2026, it was confirmed Lambiase had signed with McLaren as its chief racing officer and that he would join the Woking outfit in 2028, if not before.<\/p>\n<p>Lambiase started his F1 career as a data engineer for Jordan in 2005 before becoming a race engineer when the team transitioned to Force India. He joined Red Bull in 2015, initially serving as Daniil Kvyat&#8217;s race engineer before Verstappen joined in 2016. Lambiase was later promoted to head of racing in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull is reportedly preparing to recruit Aston Martin&#8217;s Tom McCullough as its new head of race engineering,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,2190,295634,82,4962],"class_list":["post-849910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-report-red-bull-finds-gianpiero-lambiase-f1-replacement","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849910","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=849910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}