Gianpiero Lam🎶biase has been credited for the manner of his interactions with Max Verstappen.

Verstappen and his race engineer are well-known within Formula 1 fo🍌r their feisty radio conversations.

Lambiase, in particular, is feted fo🎉r his cool and collected reꩲsponses to Verstappen’s often fiery words.

“He’s an engineer like I was,” Rob Smedley told the ღRed Fla𓄧gs Podcast.

Smedley worked for Jordan, Ferrari and 🔜Williams in the F1 paddock, most notably as the race engineer for Felipe Massa.

He explained the unique role of a race engineer who must converse with a stressed driver vi💝a raꦜdio during a grand prix.

“Wh𒀰en I first started, Gary Anderson said to me ‘you’ve got to be pissing in each other’s pockets’,” Smedley said.

“There is no hieﷺrarchy here,💝 it’s two guys trying to get the best out of this thing.

“It’s a pressure coo🌄ker, too. You’ve got to have a completely open relationship.

“Sometimes you will🦂 get pissed off with him, or he’ll get pissed off with you.

“But it’s like any kind🐓 of deep relationship. You have those moments then, five minutes later🍷, it’s all okay.

“That’s wha🎶t it should be like between an engineer and a driver when you get the relationship right."

Gianpiero Lambiase praised for holding Max Verstappen to account

“GP tells him like it is, and Max will fire ba🔜ck," Smedley continued.

“One thing I like a𓂃bout GP, which is similar to how I always felt, is that sometime🐓s drivers can be sociopathic with their views on the team.

“These are guys who stay up until midnight working for y𓃲ou.

“You’ve heard GP a couple of times - and I have also said it to my drivers - is that ‘you need to go to the garag♌e and apologise to the guys, because how you’ve been behaving iဣs not adult, you have not been a nice person’.

“GP has done that with Max, and I ce✨rtainly did it 🎶in my time.

✃“The way Gianpiero conducts𓃲 himself on the radio is a reflection on their real relationship.

“They both rely on each o𒉰ther fully, and trust 🐽each other fully.

“Whenever I delivered a message, I remembered that it’s not called ‘Massa Formula 1’ or ‘Smedley Formula 1’ or ‘𒁃Alonso Formula 1’. It’s called Ferrari Formula 1.

“Our pay cheques have Scuderia Ferrari on them, that’s who we work f𒈔or.

“You’ve got to get the balance right. A race engineer cannot be 100% focused on what the team needs, otherwise he’s not optimising hꦆis vehicle.

“If you’re not optimising tꦏhe package, you do a disservice to the team. It’s a real tightrope of optimising the car, but not overstepping the mark by doing 🌱it to the detriment of the team.”

Lambiase, w🌺ho has been ✤alongside Verstappen for each of his four consecutive drivers’ championships, will be rewarded with a new role at Red Bull this year.

He will become their Head of Racing, part of a restructure due to Jonathan Whe🔯atley’s exit.

But crucially Lambiase w⛦ill still be the voice in Verstappen’s ear during races.