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Max Verstappen is without Gianpiero Lambiase at the Austrian Grand Prix – so who is the race engineer in his place?
Max Verstappen will have a new race engineer, Simon Rennie, at the Austrian Grand Prix as Gianpiero Lambiase will be absent due to personal reasons. Lambiase has been Verstappen’s engineer since the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, where Verstappen won his debut race with Red Bull. Rennie, who previously worked with drivers like Fernando Alonso and Daniel Ricciardo, will now step in to support Verstappen at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. This change marks the first time in 196 F1 race events that Verstappen will have a different engineer by his side. Rennie brings a wealth of experience from his time in Formula 1, and his return to the trackside role aims to help Verstappen secure a fifth Austrian Grand Prix victory.
