Oscar Piastri’s win last week at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix put McLaren top in the teams’ standings — the key to F1’s lavish prize money — but teammate Norris only took a small bite out of Verstappen’s lead.

Max Verstappen’s Formula One race engineer, GianPiero Lambiase, has been promoted as part of a restructure within Red Bull Racing following the departure of sporting director Jonathan Wheatley. Wheatley will leave Red Bull in 2025 to become the team principal of Audi’s new F1 team,

Red Bull will restructure their F1 engineering team with Max Verstappen ’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase promoted to a new role. Design guru Adrian Newey and sporting director Jonathan Wheatley will leave the world champions ahead of the 2025 F1 season, with Newey joining Aston Martin and Wheatley moving to Audi.