Earthquake in Milton Keynes
Excluding Max Verstappen, the last pillar of Red Bull that achieved great results in F1 from 2021 to 2024 (dominating in 2023) has fallen: according to reports from the Dutch outlets De Telegraaf and De Limburger, in fact, Gianpiero Lambiase has accepted an offer defined as astronomical from McLaren and will join the Woking team starting from 2028.
Lambiase still has a year of contract with Red Bull until 2027 and in McLaren’s plans he is the designated successor of Andrea Stella in the role of papaya team principal at the moment when Stella ends his experience at the helm of McLaren.
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After Rob Marshall and Will Courtenay, Lambiase will also leave Milton Keynes to join Woking, a change of colors that only darkens the clouds over the future of Max Verstappen at Red Bull given that it is no secret that the Dutch driver is very close to his race engineer, who could not refuse the ‘offer of a lifetime’ for what will be a probable career advancement – paid in gold – in the team that has dethroned Red Bull from the role of dominant car in the ground effect era.
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