Rob Marshall leaves Pink Bull to hitch McLaren as technical director for F1 2024

Reigning world champion crew Pink Bull introduced immediately that Chief Engineering Officer Rob Marshall is to go away the crew on the finish of 2023, bringing to an finish virtually twenty years as a member of the Workforce’s technical division.

The 55-year-old engineer will step again from his present function with rapid impact and be part of the McLaren Formulation 1 crew subsequent January, the place he’ll turn into Technical Director, Engineering and Design.

Becoming a member of Pink Bull Racing from Renault whom he helped to the 2005 Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship, Marshall took on the function of Chief Designer which he held on the Milton Keynes-based outfit from 2006 till 2016.

In 2016 after a decade as Chief Designer, Marshall took a wider function throughout the group with the newly created place of Chief Engineering Officer.

Paying tribute to Rob’s time on the Workforce, Oracle Pink Bull Racing Workforce Principal and CEO Christian Horner stated: “We wish to thank Rob for every part he has accomplished for the Workforce over the previous 17 years. His work on the technology of vehicles that gave us 4 unbelievable championship doubles between 2010 and 2013 was actually excellent.

“Within the years since he has continued to be a key determine on the Workforce and in 2016 took on the broader function of Chief Engineering Officer which has seen him concerned in different initiatives throughout the enterprise. His affect might be missed however as soon as once more we thank him for all he has accomplished and want him the easiest in his new function.”

At McLaren, Marshall will fulfil the function of Technical Director which can sit inside the McLaren’s Technical Govt crew, alongside Peter Prodromou and David Sanchez, reporting on to Workforce Principal Andrea Stella.

The Tauton-born engineer might be supported by Neil Houldey within the newly created function of Deputy Technical Director, Engineering & Design, to finish the senior technical construction.

McLaren’s Workforce Principal Andrea Stella commented: “I’m extremely happy that Rob might be becoming a member of McLaren. With over 25 years working in motorsport, Rob involves us with a wealth of experience and expertise, elevated by his tenure and monitor report at Pink Bull Racing. Rob’s appointment is among the elementary steps and a pure match to assist the crew’s journey to get again to our successful methods.

“We’re a crew with the ambition of combating for championships, however during the last couple of seasons we’ve not proven a gentle upward development from an on-track competitiveness viewpoint. Over the previous couple of months, we’ve labored in direction of inverting this development. The method we’ve adopted is complete and relies on strengthening the crew from a folks and experience viewpoint, together with the continuing initiatives to improve expertise and infrastructure that may shortly come to fruition,” Stella concluded.