Red Bull claim Lambiase is leaving to become McLaren team principal

Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has claimed Max Verstappen's race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase will become McLaren team principal.

Red Bull announced in March that Lambiase was leaving his role as head of race engineering and Verstappen's engineer to join McLaren, who said he would take up the position of chief racing officer in "no later than 2028".