Red Bull have appointed former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough as their head of racing from 2027.
The 50-year-old Briton will replace Gianpiero Lambiase, who is set to join McLaren as chief racing officer by an unspecified date in 2028.
Red Bull said they “looked forward to the wealth of experience and expertise he will bring to the role” when McCullough joins at the start of 2027.
McCullough returns to a senior Formula 1 role
McCullough is a highly respected figure in Formula 1. He spent more than a decade with the team now known as Aston Martin, working through its previous identities as Force India and Racing Point. Before joining the team, he held roles at Williams and Sauber.
In January 2025, a restructure moved McCullough away from Aston Martin’s Formula 1 race team and into its performance technologies division.
His new position at Red Bull will effectively oversee all aspects of the race team under team principal Laurent Mekies.
It remains to be seen whether McCullough’s appointment will help Red Bull and McLaren negotiate an agreement allowing Lambiase to leave earlier than currently planned.
Lambiase is widely known as Max Verstappen’s race engineer, as well as for the direct and unfiltered relationship between the pair during their team radio exchanges.
