Red Bull’s leadership reshuffle: Who are Ben Waterhouse and Andrea Landi?

On Friday, Red Bull announced a “series of organisational changes within its technical department” with the aim of “reinforcing its focus on performance and innovation."

Specifically, the Austrian outfit announced that Head of Performance Engineering Ben Waterhouse has been promoted to Chief Performance and Design Engineer.

With responsibility over Design and Vehicle Performance, Waterhouse will report to the team’s Technical Director, Pierre Waché.

Elsewhere, the former Deputy Technical Director at the sister team Racing Bulls, Andrea Landi, will plug the gap left by Waterhouse’s promotion, beginning his work as Red Bull’s new Head of Performance on July 1.

The new Chief Performance and Design Engineer Waterhouse has been associated with Red Bull for over 20 years, arriving at Jaguar Racing (the team taken over by Red Bull in 2005) as a structural analysis engineer, before moving into vehicle dynamics by the time Red Bull Racing was established.

In 2008, he left Milton Keynes to join BMW Sauber, as part of a talented group of engineers, including Red Bull’s Technical Director Waché and Ferrari’s Loic Serra, and oversaw some success at the Swiss outfit, eventually rising to Head of Vehicle Performance.

In 2014, however, Waterhouse returned to the Red Bull family, taking on the Deputy Technical Director role at the Faenza-based Toro Rosso (now Racing Bulls).

Three years later, Waterhouse was back in Milton Keynes, joining Red Bull as their Head of Performance Engineering, before stepping up to lead the department in 2018, dedicated to "optimising the performance of the car on a short, medium and long-term basis."

Although he wont't be joining Red Bull until July, Italian engineer Landi arrives at the team also with a high level of F1 experience, having served as not only the Deputy Technical Director at Racing Bulls, but also the Deputy Head of Vehicle Performance at Ferrari.

Landi has also previously worked as a race engineer, specifically as Jaime Alguersuari's right-hand man at Toro Rosso for the 2010 and 2011 seasons, and remained as Jean-Eric Vergne's race engineer in 2012.

After those three seasons in F1, Landi moved to DTM racing to work as a race engineer with drivers Marco Wittmann and António Félix da Costa at BMW Team MTEK.

Following from that spell in DTM, Landi then earned his Head of Vehicle Dynamics role at Ferrari, before taking on his current role at Racing Bulls alongside other technical director Guillaume Cattelani.