Perez changes race engineer with Red Bull for the Dutch Grand Prix

Sergio Perez gets a new race engineer for the Dutch Grand Prix. The Red Bull Racing driver will temporarily be without Hugh Bird.

Perez gets a new race engineer for Dutch GP

GPblog can confirm that Perez will get another race engineer at Zandvoort. Bird is going on paternity leave and will be temporarily absent for that reason. Bird will still be present during the Dutch GP to supervise, but after that, he will not attend any Formula 1 races for the time being.

Performance engineer Richard Wood will take over Bird's duties for the time being and will, therefore, be heard on Perez's team radio from the F1 race at Circuit Zandvoort. Richard Cooke, performance engineer of the team's simulator, will in turn take over Wood's role. The new division of roles will apply for at least the next three races, up to and including the Singapore GP.

This article has been written in collaboration with Matt Gretton