Verstappen’s race engineer is LEAVING Red Bull for McLaren… what happens next?
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In more damaging for Red Bull, Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase is set to join McLaren in a multimillion pound deal.
We react to some seismic news that could signal the start of some big changes across the F1 paddock over the next few seasons. So what could GP be tasked with at McLaren? And what does this mean for Max Verstappen?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.4 | You thought we'd gone. |
| 0:12.2 | But no, emergency podcast. |
| 0:16.2 | And it's got nothing to do with drivers, or maybe it will. |
| 0:19.5 | But this is big. Jampieri Lambiasi, or maybe it will, but this is big. |
| 0:21.9 | Jampieri Lambiasi, otherwise known as GP, is leaving Red Bull. |
| 0:26.7 | And this could have pretty huge consequences for the rest of the F1 grid, the personnel, a lot of moves. |
| 0:34.5 | This could be another domino, Tommy. |
| 0:36.2 | It could absolutely be another domino effect of the whole of Formula One, which is brilliant, |
| 0:42.4 | because a little behind the scenes bit of info we recorded our 2029 prediction. |
| 0:48.6 | And right at the end, I said, can't wait for a massive domino effect now to happen. |
| 0:52.7 | And sure enough, literally the day after, it begins. |
| 0:57.5 | So, yeah, here we are. |
| 0:59.4 | Now, if you're wondering why a race engineer leaving deserves an emergency podcast, |
| 1:03.6 | well, it's been heavily reported that he has signed a huge multi-million pound deal with McLaren for 2028, which is absolute madness. |
| 1:14.4 | Did not expect this on a random midweek chill day. And it's just, it's just like, boom. |
| 1:21.6 | I think the first person I saw post about it was Kim Ilman. And then it's all sort of just |
| 1:25.8 | come out since then and what a step |
| 1:28.8 | up that would be and to McLaren of all teams as well so if you're unaware you know if you're new to |
| 1:35.5 | Formula One or whatever let me give you a little bit of a background of who Jampiero Lambiasi is so basically |
| 1:41.5 | he is Max Verstappen's race engineer at Red Bull and has been since |
| 1:46.0 | 2016. And they've been lauded as a great partnership similar to Lewis Hamilton and Bono. |
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