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The Race is on, and Maxford's Rappan's race engineer has decided to leave Red Bull when his

contract is up. But how big a loss is Jampiero Lambiasse for it? And how big a gain for McLaren?

I'm Ed Straw and joining me to answer those questions and explain what it might mean for Max Verstappen

are John Noble and Scott Mitchell Mown. Well, the big news today is that Jampiero

Lambiette will leave Red Bull and join McLaren at the start of 2028, subject to any agreements being reached

for an early release. Start off with you, John. This Red Bull brain drain seems to continue.

He's the latest to leave following pretty much everyone really, Adrian Newey, Christian Horner,

Jonathan Wheatley to name just a few. How big a loss is he?

Yeah, it's another big loss and it's obviously seems to be a one-way

revolving door that we see all these big names. Isn't that just a door? Not necessarily because

you could have a door that goes out and then it comes back in again, whereas this one just seems

to go one way, all the big names seem to be leaving and not many people

arriving. But I think there's a wider significance to this one that Gianpiero and Max had

formed this huge alliance, you know, one of the truly iconic driver, race engineer relationships.

Gianpiero was someone who seemed well embedded at Red Bull. So I think for him to

leave tells us a lot about maybe he doesn't see the direction of Red Bull being somewhere

he wants to be, the better opportunities elsewhere, but also Max's future as well, a relationship

that has been, you know, this strong, has been through the highs and the lows and

the successes and the failures and all those emotions is coming to an end now. No matter what Max does,

this relationship is coming to an end. And I think that's what the significance of this really is.

Scott, this has been coming, hasn't it, insofar as we know Aston Martin

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