Max Verstappen’s trusted race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, known across the paddock as “GP” and the man on the end of multiple rants and rebukes from the four-time F1 world champion for nearly a decade, is not one for excessive superlatives.
Such is his job, now head of racing at Red Bull, he has to keep a cool head amid an often chaotic grand prix weekend, which is precisely why his reaction to Verstappen’s pole-setting lap in qualifying for the Japanese GP on Saturday was so noteworthy.
