{"id":37472,"date":"2026-01-07T02:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/will-courtenay-former-red-bull-head-of-strategy-starts-role-as-mclarens-sporting-director\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:18:02","slug":"will-courtenay-former-red-bull-head-of-strategy-starts-role-as-mclarens-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/will-courtenay-former-red-bull-head-of-strategy-starts-role-as-mclarens-sporting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Courtenay: Former Red Bull head of strategy starts role as McLaren’s sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Courtenay confirmed the news on his LinkedIn page,, external<\/span><\/a> saying: “I’d like to say a huge thanks to everyone I worked with at Red Bull. I made so many great friends there and I hope I’ll still see many of you in the paddock. It was an incredible two and a bit decades.<\/p>\n

“But now I’m looking forward to settling into my new role and team, and hopefully making plenty more new friends, as I do my very best to help McLaren continue its recent success in the coming years.”<\/p>\n

Courtenay reports to McLaren racing director Randy Singh in his new role.<\/p>\n

Red Bull are expected to promote principal strategy engineer Hannah Schmitz, who has worked closely with Courtenay for the past 15 years, to lead their strategy team.<\/p>\n

The new F1 season starts with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on 6-8 March. <\/p>\n

Before that, there are three pre-season tests for teams to prepare new cars following major changes to both the chassis and engine rules for 2026 – in a private session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 26-30 January, followed by two in Bahrain, on 11-13 and 18-20 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Courtenay confirmed the news on his LinkedIn page,, external saying: “I’d like to say a huge thanks to everyone I worked with at Red Bull. I made so many great friends there and I hope I’ll still see many of you in the paddock. It was an incredible two and a bit decades. “But now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37474,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37472\/revisions\/37474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}