GP is leaving Red Bull for McLaren in 2028

The latest “Red Bull Racing is doomed” news is that Gianpiero Lambiase, the George Martin to Max Verstappen’s Beatles, will leave for McLaren like so many of his Red Bull-heyday colleagues before him. Is this why he was crying on the pit wall after the last race last year? Who can say?

Most of the talk in F1 right now is, of course, about whether Max Verstappen himself will leave not just Red Bull but the sport entirely, and this can’t be unrelated to that. GP will have a broad mandate at McLaren, and the title of Chief Racing Officer, while reporting to Andrea Stella, which many see as the beginnings of a medium-term succession plan, but why wouldn’t GP prefer one of those at Red Bull? Ominous.