Gianpiero Lambiase
Born (1980-10-14) October 14, 1980 (age 43)
London, England
NationalityBritish[1]
OccupationRace engineer
EmployerRed Bull Racing
Known forFormula One engineer
TitleHead of Race Engineering

Gianpiero Lambiase, often known as GP (born 14 October 1980[2]), is a British Formula One engineer. He is currently the race engineer for Max Verstappen at the Red Bull Racing Formula One team.[3]

Career

Born in London,[4] Lambiase started his Formula 1 career in 2005 with Jordan and worked with the Silverstone outfit through its numerous guises for 11 years, even after the team was transformed into Midland, Spyker and Force India.[5] In 2008 he worked as a performance engineer for Giancarlo Fisichella guiding the Italian to Force India's first pole position and podium in Belgium 2009.[6][5]

In 2010 he then became a race engineer for Vitantonio Liuzzi and when the Italian left at the end of that season, he took the same position for Paul di Resta.[5] He worked with di Resta for three years, who was replaced by Sergio Pérez in 2014. After working with Pérez for one season, Lambiase moved to Red Bull Racing.[7]

At Red Bull he joined Daniil Kvyat as a racing engineer in 2015 and maintained his position when Kvyat was replaced by Verstappen. In his current role as race engineer he is responsible for all trackside communications to the driver and the set up of the Formula One car. Lambiase is known for being extremely direct and precise in his communications on the radio which Verstappen has frequently praised.[8][9]

In 2022 Lambiase took over as Head of Race Engineering from Guillaume Rocquelin for Red Bull, while also retaining his role as race engineer for Verstappen.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Who Is Max Verstappen's Race Engineer at Red Bull F1 – Gianpiero Lambiase?". Essentially Sports. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ^ Russo, Davide (27 December 2021). "F1, l'arma segreta di Max Verstappen: l'uomo che gli ha cambiato la vita". Chepoker.it (in Italian). Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Talking Bull: Team Radio". Red Bull Racing.
  4. ^ "Who is Gianpiero Lambiase, Max Verstappen's race engineer?". crash.net. 30 July 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ^ a b c "Gianpiero Lambiase: The man whose voice Verstappen huides to success". GP Blog.
  6. ^ "Class of 2013 – Who are the Williams, Force India & Sauber Race Engineers?". jobinf1.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  7. ^ "New 2015 race engineer for Sebastian Vettel after promotion for Guillaume Rocquelin". Sky Sports.
  8. ^ "Max lifts lid on dynamic with his race engineer". Planet F1. 16 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Red Bull wants to get back to dominating F1 - Verstappen". Motorsport.com. 16 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Race engineer Guillaume Rocquelin to take on Red Bull Junior Team role, says Horner". formula1.com.
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