Head of racing at Red Bull and Max Verstappen’s race engineer; joins McLaren as chief racing officer no later than 2028.[1][6]
Education
Mechanical engineering degree, University College London.[1]
Career
2005–14Jordan, Midland, Spyker and Force India; performance engineer to Giancarlo Fisichella (pole and podium at Spa 2009).[1][6]
2010–14Race engineer to Vitantonio Liuzzi, Paul di Resta and Sergio Pérez.[1][6]
2015Joined Red Bull as Daniil Kvyat’s race engineer.[1]
2016–Race engineer to Verstappen since his Red Bull promotion: four world titles, 2021–24.[1][2]
Previously engineered
Vitantonio Liuzzi, Paul di Resta, Sergio Pérez, Daniil Kvyat
Also
Born in Bedford on 14 October 1980 to Italian parents.[1][6]
McLaren move announced 9 April 2026; he stays Verstappen’s race engineer through the end of 2026.[1]
Performance engineer
Richard Cooke
Took over in 2026, having also covered the role in 2023. Tom Hart moved to a senior role across both cars and becomes Verstappen’s race engineer in 2027.[7][8][9]
Engineering lead at Red Bull Racing
Gianpiero Lambiase
Head of racing (also Verstappen’s race engineer)[1][10]
Tom McCullough takes over as lead race engineer in 2027.
Worth knowing
Tom Hart is race engineer at Austin, São Paulo and Las Vegas in 2026; Lambiase does Mexico City, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.[11][12]
Hart has occasionally stood in before when Lambiase was absent, and those races are included in the "together" totals.[10]
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