F1 Today | FIA release GP start times, Perez's engineer receives new job

In exciting news, the FIA has finally released the 2025 start times for all 24 Grands Prix. On the Formula 1 side of things, Sergio Perez's old race engineer gets a new job, while after Lewis Hamilton's crash, Ferrari's engineers had to work hard to fix the SF-23.

The FIA has recently shared with Formula 1 fans everywhere the times of all the free practices, sprints, qualifyings and feature races. With some minor changes, fans all around the world are sure to miss out on sleep during the season! Always on Saturday, the Las Vegas Grand Prix has shifted up two hours while the Australian Grand Prix stays just as early for European fans.

Sergio Perez's old race engineer, Hugh Bird, will no longer be spotted on the Red Bull Racing pit wall. Instead, Richard Wood will be Liam Lawson's race engineer. Woods had previously covered for Bird during his paternity leave but will now step up full-time. GPblog understands that Bird will be working as a Suspension Group Team Leader. Bird was not the only Red Bull Racing employee to get shuffled around as Max Verstappen's race engineer has also taken on another role. Gianpiero Lambiase will still support Verstappen from the pit wall as he will split his extra job duties with other employees.

According to Peter Windsor, even the crash couldn't keep Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari down. Despite the SF-23 not being able to be repaired in enough time for Charles Leclerc's run, Windsor still believes they accomplished something great in Barcelona. He said, "On the face of it, Lewis Hamilton’s first proper test with Ferrari, which took place in Barcelona last week, was not the greatest of tests." But that his take was "that it was actually a very, very good test for Lewis, and I think all Lewis Hamilton fans can feel delighted at the way that test went."

Both of the Ferrari drivers will be in action again very soon for the Pirelli tyre testing.

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