Three decades and a dozen-plus world championships into a career solely in Formula One, it was the middle of 2024 when Jonathan Wheatley decided he fancied a crack at sport’s infamous piranha club. A band of team bosses, biting and back-stabbing aplenty, which is not for the faint-hearted.
A staple of Red Bull’s formative and dominant years, known for his proficiency in leading the team’s grid-leading pit-stop crew, Wheatley has opted for something completely fresh. A new team, a new manufacturer and a new country, night and day from his old base in Milton Keynes. And all in time for a new generation of cars, in the sport’s biggest revamp of regulations in 76 years.
