Matt

Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy.

You thought we'd gone, but no.

Emergency podcast.

And it's got nothing to do with drivers, or maybe it will.

But this is big.

Jampiero Lambiasi, otherwise known as GP, is leaving Red Bull.

And this could have pretty huge consequences for the rest of the F1 grid, the personnel, a lot of moves.

This could be another domino, Tommy.

Now, if you're wondering why a race engineer leaving deserves an emergency podcast, well, it's been heavily reported that he has signed a huge multi-million pound deal with McLaren for 2028, which is absolute madness.

Did not expect this on a random midweek.

chill day and it's just been like boom I think the first person I saw post about it was Kim Illman and then it's all sort of just come out since then and what a step up that would be and to McLaren of all teams as well so if you're unaware you know if you're new to Formula One or whatever let me give you a little bit of a background of who Giampiero Lambiassi is so basically he is Max Verstappen's race engineer at Red Bull and has been since 2016 and

And they've been lauded as a great partnership, similar to Lewis Hamilton and Bono.

So they are an iconic Formula One duo.

And I mean, we'll get on to Max Verstappen.

This is not his news, but I feel like it might well give us some indication of what's maybe going on in his life.

So let's get into our first thoughts on GP leaving Red Bull.

As I kind of mentioned, I'm pretty shocked to sort of see this just so randomly.

I've noticed in the reports that both McLaren and Red Bull have declined to comment as of right now.

at Red Bull going that is probably a big learning curve for GP and also a big moment for McLaren you have to feel as well with it being halfway through the regulations potentially at this point unless we've torn them all up put V10s in the back of them and gone for sustainable fuels who knows the meetings today so

Yeah, well, there you go.