Verstappen is with out race engineer Lambiase for second time in three rounds

Verstappen is with out race engineer Lambiase for second time in three rounds | System 1

July 25, 2025

in Racing

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Max Verstappen shouldn’t be working together with his common race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase for the second time in three occasions on the Belgian Grand Prix.

As was the case in Austria 4 weeks in the past, Lambiase shouldn’t be current at Spa-Francorchamps as a result of private causes.

Simon Rennie is once more serving because the alternative for Lambiase, with whom Verstappen has labored since he joined Purple Bull in 2015. Rennie works within the workforce’s simulator division and was beforehand the race engineer to different Purple Bull drivers together with Daniel Ricciardo and Alexander Albon.

Verstappen stated the co-operation between him and Rennie labored easily on the Purple Bull Ring. “I’ve recognized Simon for a very long time on the opposite facet of the storage and I’m working with him additionally within the simulator and he has a variety of expertise anyway,” he stated. “He was straight on it and it was good.”

Nonetheless Verstappen suffered an early exit from the race when he was hit by Andrea Kimi Antonelli shortly after the beginning.

Following his second absence in three occasions, it stays to be seen whether or not it will likely be attainable for Lambiase to return on the subsequent spherical in Hungary in a single week’s time. That occasion is adopted by the four-week summer time break.

It’s the second vital change at Purple Bull to have an effect on Verstappen this weekend, although the opposite one is everlasting. The workforce fired its long-standing workforce principal Christian Horner following the final spherical and promoted Laurent Mekies in his place.

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Verstappen and Lambiase may have a very busy workload this weekend as Purple Bull has chosen to introduce an intensive improve package deal at a dash occasion the place they solely have a single hour of follow. The workforce has launched modifications to its entrance wing, sidepods, engine cowl, entrance suspension and rear nook bodywork.