Pink Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin efficiency director Tom McCullough to turn into their head of racing from 2027.
The 50-year-old Briton is a alternative for Gianpiero Lambiase, who’s shifting to McLaren to turn into their chief racing officer at an unspecified time by 2028.
Pink Bull stated in a press release that they “regarded ahead to the wealth of expertise and experience he’ll convey to the function” when he joins firstly of 2027.
McCullough, a extremely revered determine in F1, spent greater than a decade on the crew now often called Aston Martin, by way of its earlier guises as Drive India and Racing Level. Earlier than that, he labored at Williams and Sauber.
In January 2025, a restructure led to him being moved off the F1 race crew and to their efficiency applied sciences division.
The brand new function successfully runs all points of the race crew underneath crew principal Laurent Mekies.
It stays to be seen whether or not his appointment will ease the trail to Pink Bull and McLaren negotiating a settlement that permits Lambiase to go away sooner than at present said.
Lambiase has turn into properly often called Max Verstappen’s race engineer, and for the direct and unfiltered relationship between them by way of their crew radio messages.
