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Tag: Organisational Changes

  • Red Bull announce organisational changes

    Red Bull have announced a series of organisational changes within their technical department.

    Several key figures have left Red Bull in recent years, including long-time boss Christian Horner, Motorsport Advisor Helmut Marko, Sporting Director Jonathan Wheatley, Chief Engineering Officer Rob Marshall, Head of Race Strategy Will Courtenay and Chief Designer Craig Skinner.

    Most recently, it was confirmed that Max Verstappen’s race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, will leave Red Bull for rivals McLaren when his contract expires at the end of 2028.

    With immediate effect, Ben Waterhouse takes on an expanded leadership role as Chief Performance and Design Engineer, with “overarching responsibility” across Design and Vehicle Performance – reporting to Technical Director Pierre Wache.

    Waterhouse joined the Red Bull family from BMW Sauber back in 2014, initially serving as Deputy Technical Director at Scuderia Toro Rosso, and since 2017 has been Head of Performance Engineering at the main outfit.

    Meanwhile, from July 1st, Andrea Landi will join Red Bull as Head of Performance reporting to Waterhouse.

    Landi has previously acted as Deputy Head of Vehicle Performance at Ferrari and Deputy Technical Director at Racing Bulls.

  • Ferrari announce organisational changes

    Ferrari have confirmed that Loic Serra will assume the role of Technical Director Chassis when he officially joins the team on October 1st.

    It was announced earlier this year that Serra and ex-F1 driver Jerome d’Ambrosio – both who previously worked for Mercedes – had been signed by the Scuderia to bolster their work force.

    Experienced engineer Serra was initially set to report to Technical Director Enrico Cardile, but the latter’s exit and move to Aston Martin means that will now be Team Principal Frederic Vasseur.

    D’Ambrosio meanwhile is still set to join Ferrari at the start of next month as their Deputy Team Principal after departing his role as head of Mercedes young driver programme.

    Serra will be responsible for a host of different departments in his new position.
    This includes, Chassis Project Engineering, Vehicle Performance, Aerodynamics, Track Engineering and Chassis Operations.

    The Italian team also highlighted that the position of Technical Director Power Unit continues to be assigned to Enrico Gualtieri.