The most iconic driver-race engineer partnerships in F1 history The impending departure of Gianpiero Lambiase from Red Bull will bring to a close one of the most renowned partnerships between a race engineer and a driver. The impending departure of Gianpiero Lambiase from Red Bull will bring to a close one of the most renowned partnerships between a race engineer and a driver, with "GP" and Max Verstappen having delivered four Drivers’ titles and dozens of pole positions and race wins since they began working together in 2016. Across the past three decades or so the role of race engineer has significantly evolved amid the growth of the F1 teams, while the advent of team radio broadcasts on television coverage has heightened public awareness and raised the profile of the people carrying out this critical job. We’ve picked out some of the other most famous driver-race engineer relationships in Formula 1. Jacques Villeneuve and Jock Clear Hotshot Jacques Villeneuve landed in F1 with Williams in 1996 after success in the US and was immediately a front-runner, swiftly building a rapport with Jock Clear. The pair won the 1997 Drivers’ title together, and Clear followed Villeneuve to the start-up BAR operation when the Canadian made the surprising career switch. Clear continued to engineer Villeneuve until the driver quit BAR-Honda before the final round of 2003. “I think as a personality he has so much self confidence that puts him in good stead in pretty much most of the situations that he’s been in as a racing driver,” Clear told F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast in 2021. “But the downside of that is that it did mean he would come up with some pretty weird ideas about why things weren’t going right for him. And then you’d have to say: ‘maybe you