Reigning world champion crew Red Bull introduced immediately that Chief Engineering Officer Rob Marshall is to go away the crew on the finish of 2023, bringing to an finish nearly 20 years as a member of the Team’s technical division.
The 55-year-old engineer will step again from his present function with rapid impact and join the McLaren Formula 1 crew subsequent January, the place he’ll turn into Technical Director, Engineering and Design.
Joining Red Bull Racing from Renault whom he helped to the 2005 Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship, Marshall took on the function of Chief Designer which he held on the Milton Keynes-based outfit from 2006 till 2016.
In 2016 after a decade as Chief Designer, Marshall took a wider function throughout the group with the newly created place of Chief Engineering Officer.
Paying tribute to Rob’s time on the Team, Oracle Red Bull Racing Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner mentioned: “We would really like to thank Rob for the whole lot he has executed for the Team over the previous 17 years. His work on the technology of vehicles that gave us 4 unimaginable championship doubles between 2010 and 2013 was actually excellent.
“In the years since he has continued to be a key determine on the Team and in 2016 took on the broader function of Chief Engineering Officer which has seen him concerned in different initiatives throughout the enterprise. His affect can be missed however as soon as once more we thank him for all he has executed and need him the easiest in his new function.”
McLaren has recruited Rob Marshall from Red Bull Racing, who will join as Technical Director, Engineering & Design.
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At McLaren, Marshall will fulfil the function of Technical Director which is able to sit throughout the McLaren’s Technical Executive crew, alongside Peter Prodromou and David Sanchez, reporting immediately to Team Principal Andrea Stella.
The Tauton-born engineer can be supported by Neil Houldey within the newly created function of Deputy Technical Director, Engineering & Design, to full the senior technical construction.
McLaren’s Team Principal Andrea Stella commented: “I’m extremely happy that Rob can be becoming a member of McLaren. With over 25 years working in motorsport, Rob comes to us with a wealth of experience and expertise, elevated by his tenure and monitor report at Red Bull Racing. Rob’s appointment is without doubt one of the elementary steps and a pure match to assist the crew’s journey to get again to our successful methods.
“We are a crew with the ambition of preventing for championships, however over the past couple of seasons we have now not proven a gentle upward development from an on-track competitiveness standpoint. Over the previous couple of months, we have now labored in direction of inverting this development. The strategy we have now adopted is complete and is predicated on strengthening the crew from a folks and experience standpoint, together with the continuing initiatives to improve know-how and infrastructure that can shortly come to fruition,” Stella concluded.
