The Purple Bull Components 1 workforce has confirmed it has employed long-time Aston Martin engineer Tom McCullough to switch McLaren sure Gianpiero Lambiase as head of racing.
Lambiase will be part of McLaren in 2028 to grow to be its chief racing officer, reporting into workforce principal Andrea Stella. The Briton is presently serving a twin function on the workforce as Max Verstappen’s race engineer, dovetailing these duties with a extra overarching “head of racing” place.
As beforehand reported, Verstappen’s former efficiency engineer Tom Hart has determined towards a transfer to Williams to take over the race engineer function beginning in 2027. The Milton Keynes squad has now additionally discovered a successor for Lambiase as head of racing within the form of Aston Martin man McCullough.
“We’re delighted to welcome Tom to the workforce initially of 2027 and sit up for the wealth of expertise and experience he’ll carry to the function,” the workforce shared in an announcement.
Gianpiero Lambiase is about to depart Purple Bull by 2028 on the newest.
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McCullough was a long-time servant of Aston Martin via its Pressure India and Racing Level days, performing the chief race engineer function for 4 seasons earlier than changing into its efficiency director, a job which he held till the top of the 2024 season.
As a part of a restructuring of the workforce in early 2025, McCullough’s duties have been taken on by earlier workforce principal Mike Krack. McCullough was shifted to non-F1 tasks at Aston Martin Efficiency Applied sciences in a senior management function, which he’s now set to vacate.
The 50-year-old, who began his profession at chassis builder Reynard, additionally served spells at Sauber and Williams.
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