Red Bull snaps up Racing Bulls F1 deputy tech chief, promotes Ben Waterhouse

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Red Bull has promoted its long-time head of performance engineering Ben Waterhouse into a more senior role, grabbing Racing Bulls' deputy technical director Andrea Landi as his replacement.

On Friday, Red Bull announced Waterhouse would move to the role of chief performance and design engineer, bridging the design and vehicle performance departments and reporting to technical director Pierre Wache.

The team explained this cross-department role "strengthens integration between these areas and will accelerate the development of competitive, high-performing solutions."

Former BMW-Sauber man Waterhouse first joined the Red Bull umbrella in 2014 as Toro Rosso's deputy technical director before moving across to Red Bull Racing in 2017.

In his previous role, Waterhouse will be replaced from 1 July onwards by Andrea Landi, who comes over from sister team Racing Bulls to become head of performance.

At Faenza, Landi was one of two deputy tech directors under CTO Tim Goss, covering car design while Guillaume Cattelani heads up the car performance department.

Ben Waterhouse with Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies and tech director Pierre Wache.

Ben Waterhouse with Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies and tech director Pierre Wache.

Red Bull said the changes "reflect its continued focus on developing internal talent while attracting leading expertise from across the sport".