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Lawson will get new race engineer for 2025 F1 season 
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Lawson will get new race engineer for 2025 F1 season 

Motorsports February 3, 2025
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Purple Bull has named Sergio Perez’s former efficiency engineer Richard Wooden as the brand new race engineer for incoming Components 1 driver Liam Lawson in 2025.

Wooden garnered expertise on the Purple Bull pit wall a number of instances throughout 2024 when Perez’s common race engineer Hugh Hen was on paternity depart.

A protracted-term Purple Bull worker, Wooden joined the staff as a strategist earlier than shifting into race assist and simulator engineering forward of switching to the trackside staff, and now turns into Lawson’s race engineer because the Kiwi steps as much as the lead Purple Bull-owned staff.

This follows a restructuring of Purple Bull’s trackside operations following the departure of Jonathan Wheatley. Gianpiero Lambiase – Max Verstappen’s race engineer – has taken up a bigger position, as reported by Motorsport.com months in the past.

Wheatley will begin his new problem at Sauber on 1 April – sooner than initially deliberate – and is not working for Purple Bull. He’s serving the necessary interval of gardening depart these months. 

Purple Bull is just not changing Wheatley one-on-one, however has divided his duties amongst a number of staff members; in a single such instance, Lambiase is taking over a bigger position as head of racing. 

Jonathan Wheatley, Group Supervisor, Purple Bull Racing

Picture by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Photographs

Lambiase stays Verstappen’s race engineer, however has been given extra duties that contain the whole staff. Lambiase heads the each day ‘race operation’ in addition to some technique operations. 

When it comes to technique, Will Courtenay stays on the Purple Bull pit wall this yr regardless of being signed by McLaren final yr. The chief strategist will depart for McLaren mid-2026, however Purple Bull is not going to launch him earlier.

One other a part of Wheatley’s duties will fall below Steve Knowles. He’s the top of sporting within the new construction, which amongst different issues entails communication with race management.

Regardless of Lambiase’s promotion, the engineering staff round Verstappen stays intact. This additionally applies to senior management programs engineer Michael Manning, who has indicated internally that he aspires to a special place. 

Manning and his programs staff play an vital position in Verstappen’s begins, which have turn into more and more complicated in modern-day F1. 

Nevertheless, Purple Bull confirmed that Manning will end the 2025 season in his present position and that he is not going to transfer to a different staff, regardless of reviews that the Irishman was to depart.

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