Crimson Bull has named Sergio Perez’s former efficiency engineer Richard Wooden as the brand new race engineer for incoming System 1 driver Liam Lawson in 2025.
Wooden garnered expertise on the Crimson Bull pit wall a number of occasions throughout 2024 when Perez’s common race engineer Hugh Chicken was on paternity go away.
An extended-term Crimson Bull worker, Wooden joined the workforce as a strategist earlier than transferring into race help and simulator engineering forward of switching to the trackside workforce, and now turns into Lawson’s race engineer because the Kiwi steps as much as the lead Crimson Bull-owned workforce.
This follows a restructuring of Crimson Bull’s trackside operations following the departure of Jonathan Wheatley. Gianpiero Lambiase – Max Verstappen’s race engineer – has taken up a bigger position, as reported by Motorsport.com months in the past.
Wheatley will begin his new problem at Sauber on 1 April – sooner than initially deliberate – and is now not working for Crimson Bull. He’s serving the obligatory interval of gardening go away these months.
Crimson Bull will not be changing Wheatley one-on-one, however has divided his duties amongst a number of workforce members; in a single such instance, Lambiase is taking up a bigger position as head of racing.
Jonathan Wheatley, Group Supervisor, Crimson Bull Racing
Photograph by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Photos
Lambiase stays Verstappen’s race engineer, however has been given extra obligations that contain the whole workforce. Lambiase heads the every day ‘race operation’ in addition to some technique operations.
By way of technique, Will Courtenay stays on the Crimson Bull pit wall this 12 months regardless of being signed by McLaren final 12 months. The chief strategist will go away for McLaren mid-2026, however Crimson Bull is not going to launch him earlier.
One other a part of Wheatley’s obligations will fall below Steve Knowles. He’s the pinnacle of sporting within the new construction, which amongst different issues entails communication with race management.
Regardless of Lambiase’s promotion, the engineering workforce round Verstappen stays intact. This additionally applies to senior management methods engineer Michael Manning, who has indicated internally that he aspires to a unique place.
Manning and his methods workforce play an necessary position in Verstappen’s begins, which have turn out to be more and more advanced in modern-day F1.
Nonetheless, Crimson Bull confirmed that Manning will end the 2025 season in his present position and that he is not going to transfer to a different workforce, regardless of studies that the Irishman was to depart.
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