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Liam Lawson will be working with a key Sergio Perez ally as his new race engineer at Red Bull.
RacingNews365 has confirmed that Liam Lawson will be paired with Richard Wood, Sergio Perez’s former performance engineer, as his new Red Bull race engineer. Lawson’s engineer at Racing Bulls, Pierre Hamelin, has not joined him at the senior Red Bull squad, so he will be teamed up with an existing engineer from the Milton Keynes-based team for the 2025 season. Wood, who previously worked as Perez’s performance engineer and temporarily stepped in as the race engineer in ’24, has a long history with Red Bull, joining the team in 2012 and progressing through various roles before becoming a performance engineer in 2021. Red Bull also confirmed that Gianpiero Lambiase will continue as Max Verstappen’s engineer, while Perez’s former engineer, Hugh Bird, is transitioning into a factory-based role with the team.
