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McLaren has confirmed reports Red Bull's aerodynamics boss is heading to Woking.
Amid the great British team's 2013 slump, McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh said in Korea a week ago that "some as-yet unannounced" recruitments "will be headline-grabbing".
The first headlines are indeed now emerging.
"(Peter Promodrou has) signed a contract with us," team boss Martin Whitmarsh told Reuters at Suzuka.
Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt said Prodromou is "one of the leading engineers in formula one", with his impending move "a win for McLaren and a huge blow to Red Bull".
McLaren, however, may have to wait, as Prodromou's current contract runs until 2015.
When asked about Prodromou at Suzuka, Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko said: "He's not at Woking yet!"
"We've enjoyed a long relationship with Peter and he's a valuable member of the team and there's quite a duration left on his contract," added team principal Christian Horner.
"We won't force him to stay, if it's his choice to leave then he'll leave at the end of his contract. But we are quite some way off that."
McLaren has confirmed reports Red Bull's aerodynamics boss is heading to Woking.
Amid the great British team's 2013 slump, McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh said in Korea a week ago that "some as-yet unannounced" recruitments "will be headline-grabbing".
The first headlines are indeed now emerging.
"(Peter Promodrou has) signed a contract with us," team boss Martin Whitmarsh told Reuters at Suzuka.
Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt said Prodromou is "one of the leading engineers in formula one", with his impending move "a win for McLaren and a huge blow to Red Bull".
McLaren, however, may have to wait, as Prodromou's current contract runs until 2015.
When asked about Prodromou at Suzuka, Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko said: "He's not at Woking yet!"
"We've enjoyed a long relationship with Peter and he's a valuable member of the team and there's quite a duration left on his contract," added team principal Christian Horner.
"We won't force him to stay, if it's his choice to leave then he'll leave at the end of his contract. But we are quite some way off that."