HANNAH SCHMITZ Essential to Red Bull’s Future as Key Personnel Continue Exit

December 11, 2025

• As Red Bull continues hemorrhaging talent with Helmut Marko’s latest departure joining Adrian Newey and Jonathan Wheatley, Ted Kravitz identified one person they absolutely cannot afford to lose: strategy chief HANNAH SCHMITZ. While everyone’s wringing their hands about the engineering exodus, Kravitz cut straight to the heart of what really matters on race day – the split-second calls that turn good cars into championship winners.
• SCHMITZ has become the quiet architect behind Red Bull’s recent dominance, credited with masterminding victories that seemed impossible on paper. Her strategic brilliance turned the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix and 2021 French Grand Prix from potential disasters into Red Bull triumphs, proving that while designers get the headlines, it’s the strategists who deliver the points when it matters most.
• With Will Courtenay already gone from the strategy department, SCHMITZ now carries even more responsibility as the leader keeping Red Bull’s tactical operations together. Kravitz made it crystal clear that losing her would be “an issue” for the team – diplomatic language that translates to “absolute disaster” in F1 speak, especially when Max Verstappen’s future depends entirely on results.

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