Racing Bulls, the Faenza-based VCARB F1 squad, appointed Dan Fallows as technical director and he will join the team in April. He will oversee the team’s design, aerodynamics and performance programmes and will report to chief technical officer Tim Goss. The post had been vacant since Jody Egginton moved to Red Bull Advanced Technologies; Racing Bulls said the hire is part of a push to accelerate its development ahead of the 2026 season. The team’s new car, the VCARB 03, completed its first run at Imola earlier that week.

Fallows returns to the Red Bull group after a long F1 career. He worked at Jaguar from 2001 to 2004 and at Red Bull from 2006 until 2021, and he was recruited to Aston Martin as technical director in 2022. He was dismissed after a disappointing 2024 campaign and left Aston Martin’s F1 operation at the end of 2024. After a spell at Aston Martin Performance Technologies, he founded Hiperformant in June 2025 to apply F1 expertise to high‑performance engineering and business development; reports said his Racing Bulls appointment comes about ten months after he moved on from Aston Martin Performance Technologies.

Team principal Alan Permane called Fallows’s technical understanding and leadership “a real asset,” while Fallows said he was “very pleased to be joining VCARB at an exciting time for the team” and cautioned it will be some time before a design he directly influences reaches the track. Fallows will assume full responsibilities in April after completing his gardening leave.

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