Red Bull has announced that Aston Martin's Performance Director, Tom McCullough is to replace Gianpiero Lambiase.

First entering motorsport with Reynard, McCullough joined Williams as a data engineer then race engineer in 2002, remaining there until 2012 when he briefly joined Sauber as head of track engineering. The following year he headed to Silverstone where he joined Force India.

He has remained at Silverstone ever since, through all of the team's various iterations, overseeing the successes of 2016 and 2017, not forgetting that historic win at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix.

Though he remained with Aston Martin, when Andy Cowell was appointed CEO and Team Principal in early 2025, McCullough was effectively moved sideways into the role of Performance Director at Aston Martin Performance Technologies. Since then, it has not been a question of whether McCullough would move elsewhere but when.

"We're delighted to welcome Tom to the team at the beginning of 2027 and look forward to the wealth of experience and expertise he will bring to the role," said Red Bull in a brief statement, the Briton's job title described as Head of Racing.

Red Bull has been haemorrhaging key personnel over the last 18 months, including Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley, Rob Marshall, Will Courtenay and Lambiase, who heads to McLaren, while chief engineer Paul Monaghan has been linked with Cadillac.