F1 | Racing Bulls: Tim Goss to work on 2026 car

Racing Bulls, or better said: Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team, is under construction. The solid base remains that of AlphaTauri, a team that in its 4 years of life even achieved a sensational victory with Pierre Gasly in Monza, but is launched towards a future that will have to see it much higher than it was when it dressed in the blue and white livery of the clothing brand owned by the Red Bull Group.

Yesterday afternoon the team now directed by Laurent Mekies made an important announcement, which involved three top technicians called to be part of the new team which, however, will continue to be based in Faenza.

One of the three is Tim Goss. The British engineer born in 1963 had left the post of technical director of the single-seater sector of the International Automobile Federation a few days ago, having received it just under a year earlier from the World Motorsport Council.

Goss arrived in Faenza to help the team get back on top – read the Constructors' classification – after two disappointing years. His experience will be very important, considering the 28 years of militancy in Woking, in McLaren, in which he occupied various positions until reaching the technical direction received in 2013 after Paddy Lowe's move to Mercedes.

In 2018, however, the separation from the team now directed by Andrea Stella due to the failure of the project which led McLaren to experience a dramatic era to say the least – sportingly speaking – with the return of Honda in 2014 with the debut of the engines hybrids.

Racing Bulls' acquisition of Goss should not be underestimated. The engineer had the opportunity to work on the 2026 regulations when he held the role of single-seater technical director for the FIA. The British engineer will become operational as chief technical officer of Racing Bulls starting from October this year and the timing explains what the Mekies team's project is.

Goss, becoming operational in October, will not be able to have a hand either in the development of the 2024 single-seater of the VCARB (as the Austro-Italian team is called in abbreviation after the announcement of the new name), nor in the preparation of a large part of the 2025 single-seater which, as we know, will almost certainly be a development of the current one considering the change in regulations that will modify Formula 1 single-seaters starting from 2026.

And that is precisely the date on which Racing Bulls expects Goss to be able to do his part – not to mention the difference – and give that little bit extra in the preparation of the 2026 car. Goss has had the opportunity to draw up various aspects of the regulations that will come into force effective January 1st and Racing Bulls wants to take advantage of this experience to arrive as ready as possible at the starting gates of the new era. However, let us remember that the teams, at least until the first few months of next year, will only be able to work on the 2025 power units and not on the single-seaters. Therefore there are important time constraints to proceed with the preparation of the new concept cars.

The arrival of Goss, together with that of Guillaume Cattelani from Red Bull in the aerodynamic department (he will follow him as deputy technical director, reporting directly to Jody Egginton), will really have to take the team to another level after being at the center of insistent rumors of sales by the Red Bull Group just 6 months ago.