Gianpiero Lambiase

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Gianpiero Lambiase
Born (1980-10-14) 14 October 1980 (age 45)
Bedford, England
Citizenship
Occupation Race engineer
Employer Red Bull Racing
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleHead of Racing
SpouseMarried [3]
Children1 daughter [4]

Gianpiero Lambiase (born 14 October 1980), [5] often known as GP, is an Italian-British Formula One engineer. He is currently the Head of Racing and also serves as race engineer for Max Verstappen at the Oracle Red Bull Racing team. [6]

Career

Born in Bedford to Italian parents, [5] Lambiase started his Formula One career in 2005 with Jordan and worked with the Silverstone outfit through its numerous guises for 11 years, even after the team was transformed into Midland, Spyker and Force India. In 2008 he worked as a performance engineer for Giancarlo Fisichella, guiding the Italian to Force India's first pole position and podium in Belgium 2009. In 2010, he then became a race engineer for Vitantonio Liuzzi and when the Italian left at the end of that season, he took the same position for Paul di Resta. He worked with di Resta for three years, who was replaced by Sergio Pérez in 2014. After working with Pérez for one season, Lambiase moved to Red Bull Racing.

At Red Bull Racing, he joined Daniil Kvyat as a racing engineer in 2015 and maintained his position when Kvyat was replaced by Max Verstappen. In his role as race engineer, he is responsible for all trackside communications to the driver and the setup of the Formula One car. Lambiase is known for being extremely direct and precise in his communications on the radio, which Verstappen has frequently praised.

In 2022, Lambiase took over as Head of Race Engineering from Guillaume Rocquelin for Red Bull Racing, while also retaining his role as race engineer for Verstappen.

In October 2024, following the announced departure of former Sporting Director and Team Manager Jonathan Wheatley, who became Team Principal of Sauber, soon to be rebranded as Audi, Lambiase was promoted to Head of Racing, effective from the beginning of the 2025 season. In this capacity, he assumed responsibility for the race, heritage, and car build departments, and was tasked with coordinating strategic liaison and compliance with sporting regulations. The structural change resulted from Red Bull’s decision to divide the responsibilities previously held by Wheatley, instead of appointing a direct successor to the dual role of Sporting Director and Team Manager. Lambiase continued to serve as race engineer to Max Verstappen. [7] [8] Following his promotion, Lambiase became the third-ranking figure within Red Bull’s technical and sporting hierarchy, reporting directly to Technical Director Pierre Waché and Team Principal Laurent Mekies, with Acting Head of Sporting Steve Knowles and Head of Race Team Operations Richard Wolverson both reporting to him.

During the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix weekend, Lambiase missed his first F1 race weekend with Verstappen due to personal reasons. In his absence, Simon Rennie, who is currently the Group Leader of Simulation Engineering stepped in as Verstappen's race engineer for the weekend. Rennie also took on Lambiase's responsibilities as Head of Racing for the weekend in Lambiase's absence. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

During the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix weekend, Lambiase missed his second F1 race weekend with Verstappen due to personal reasons. Similar to Austria, Simon Rennie stepped in as Verstappen's race engineer for the weekend. Rennie also took over Lambiase's responsibilities as Head of Racing for the weekend in Lambiase's absence. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Who Is Max Verstappen's Race Engineer at Red Bull F1 – Gianpiero Lambiase?". Essentially Sports. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Formula 1, Red Bull: chi è Gianpiero Lambiase, l'ingegnere di pista di Verstappen". Sky Sport F1. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  3. ↑ "Instagram".
  4. ↑ "Instagram".
  5. 1 2 Russo, Davide (27 December 2021). "F1, l'arma segreta di Max Verstappen: l'uomo che gli ha cambiato la vita". Chepoker.it (in Italian). Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Talking Bull: Team Radio". Red Bull Racing.
  7. ↑ "Red Bull reveals new F1 team structure after major exit". 18 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "Verstappen's engineer Lambiase set for Red Bull promotion".
  9. ↑ "Who is Simon Rennie? All you need to know about Max Verstappen's stand-in race engineer as Lambiase skips Austria". Formula1.com. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  10. ↑ "Who is Max Verstappen's new race engineer at the Austrian GP?". RacingNews365. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  11. ↑ "Austrian GP: Max Verstappen without engineer Gianpiero Lambiase". ESPN. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  12. ↑ "Max Verstappen gets different Race Engineer as Gianpiero Lambiase misses Austrian GP". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  13. ↑ "Max Verstappen's race engineer to miss Austrian GP with replacement named". PlanetF1.com. Retrieved 27 June 2025.
  14. ↑ "Verstappen to go without Lambiase: Here's his replacement". GPBlog. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
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