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Max Verstappen will once again be without his regular race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase as a Daniel Ricciardo ally steps in again.
Max Verstappen will once again race without his regular F1 engineer Gianpiero Lambiase during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend. This will be the second time Lambiase is absent, with Simon Rennie filling in for him, as he did during the recent Austrian GP. Rennie, who previously worked with Daniel Ricciardo, will be deputising for Lambiase for the second time at the Sprint weekend at Spa. Rennie’s F1 career began in 2014 working with Mark Webber, then moving to Ricciardo for five years before taking on a factory role in 2019 and engineering Alex Albon in 2020. An iconic F1 moment involving Rennie was when he received Kimi Raikkonen’s famous “leave me alone” message during the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix when he was at Lotus.
