Red Bull hire Aston Martin engineer McCullough as head of racing

Tom McCullough has spent more than 10 years at Aston Martin and its previous guises

>Red Bull have head-hunted former Aston Martin performance director Tom McCullough to become their head of racing from 2027.

>The 50-year-old Briton is a replacement for Gianpiero Lambiase, who is moving to McLaren to become their chief racing officer at an unspecified time by 2028.

>Red Bull said in a statement that they "looked forward to the wealth of experience and expertise he will bring to the role" when he joins at the beginning of 2027.

>McCullough, a highly respected figure in F1, spent more than a decade at the team now known as Aston Martin, through its previous guises as Force India and Racing Point. Before that, he worked at Williams and Sauber.

>In January 2025, a restructure led to him being moved off the F1 race team and to their performance technologies division.

>The new role effectively runs all aspects of the race team under team principal Laurent Mekies.

>It remains to be seen whether his appointment will ease the path to Red Bull and McLaren negotiating a settlement that allows Lambiase to leave earlier than currently stated.

>Lambiase has become well known as Max Verstappen's race engineer, and for the direct and unfiltered relationship between them through their team radio messages.

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