Head of Strategy at Red Bull Racing for many years, Will Courtenay has joined the McLaren F1 Team as Sporting Director.
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Former Red Bull Head of Strategy Will Courtenay begins Sporting Director role at McLaren F1

Head of Strategy at Red Bull Racing for many years, Will Courtenay has joined the McLaren F1 Team as Sporting Director. While it was announced in September 2024, the engineer only starts at the Woking-based team now. Starting at Jaguar before the car manufacturer left the sport at the end of 2004, the British engineer…

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Marko believes loss of high-skilled F1 personnel from Red Bull is “natural development”

Helmut Marko claims recent loss of key Red Bull F1 personnel is natural development and unrelated to rumours of a difficult relationship between himself and Christian Horner. Following the high profile departures of Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley and Will Courtenay in recent months, with all three key players joining Aston Martin, Sauber and McLaren respectively,…

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Red Bull’s Head of Race Strategy Will Courtenay to join McLaren F1 as Sporting Director

Following the departures of Adrian Newey, Dan Fallows and Rob Marshall, as well as Jonathan Wheatley come the end of the 2024 season, Red Bull Racing will also be losing Head of Strategy Will Courtenay to McLaren Racing. BBC Sport reports that he has a contract at Red Bull Racing until the middle of the…

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