Verstappen's engineers are leaving Red Bull Racing.

Verstappen's engineers are leaving Red Bull Racing.

      There will be notable changes in the engineering team working with Max Verstappen and his car in 2026: three of the four leading specialists have decided to leave Red Bull Racing.

      Only Gianpiero Lambiase, the race engineer of the four-time world champion, will remain with the team, while the other three have found new jobs.

      According to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Michael Manning’s forthcoming departure, the control systems engineer, had been known for some time, but now Tom Hart (his role is performance engineer, which can be interpreted as “operations engineer” or “efficiency engineer”) and David Mart (power unit engineer) have also announced their intention to part ways with the team.

      Mart is moving to Audi, Hart has been offered a more senior position at Williams, and at the start of the season Lee Stevenson also joined Sauber — now the former chief mechanic of Verstappen’s car, who worked at Red Bull for almost twenty years.

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Verstappen's engineers are leaving Red Bull Racing.

The engineering team working with Max Verstappen will undergo significant changes in 2026: three of the four lead specialists have decided to leave Red Bull Racing...