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Red Bull goes to court to block Fallows joining Aston Martin

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Red Bull goes to court to block Fallows joining Aston Martin

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Red Bull has taken former chief engineer of aerodynamics, Dan Fallows, to court in an attempt to block him from joining Formula 1 rival Aston Martin.

Aston Martin approached Fallows earlier this year with an employment offer, which would see him join the team as Technical Director for the 2022 season.

Whilst Fallows’ contract stipulates a six-month gardening leave period, which would expire ahead of the new season, Red Bull claim his contract actually stipulates a six-month period which can only be triggered at the conclusion of his contract, which ends of December 31st, 2022.

That would mean Fallows and Aston Martin would be required to wait until mid-2023 for him to take up his new position with the team.

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Red Bull has taken the matter to England and Wales High Court, with an initial hearing held on December 17 going in Red Bull’s favour.

Fallows defence included highlighting similar cases at Red Bull in which other members of staff have been released from their contracts, but Mr Justice Linden rejected this notion as not only were these employees at a lower level within the company, but that their circumstances were different.

The court documents, seen by MotorsportWeek.com, report that Fallows was removed from the Formula 1 operations and deployed within Red Bull Technologies to work on the road car division, which is actually working with Aston Martin on a joint project called the Valkyrie. His contract allowed for such changes in his job description.

Fallows was unhappy with this and raised a grievance, which was rejected and was not appealed. A month later, Fallows left Red Bull with immediate effect.

Red Bull then sought a declaration that the defendant was not constructively dismissed, but resigned, and his contract and its minimum terms “remained and remains in full force and effect”.

Fallows submitted a counterclaim, insisting he was dismissed by Red Bull and that “the minimum term of the contract was unenforceable because it was in restraint of trade”.

The matter is due to go back to court for a hearing between January 25 to 28, but the initial ruling rejects Fallows’ application.

This isn’t the first time Fallows has been under the legal spotlight. In 2014 he agreed to join McLaren, only to remain with Red Bull after they offered him more money to stay. McLaren took legal action, which they later dropped in exchange for Red Bull cutting the length of Peter Prodromou’s gardening leave, allowing him to join McLaren sooner.

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Comments 5

  1. OlaRay says:
    3 years ago

    How ironic, they can cherry-pick Mercedes staff as they wish, but someone takes their staff, and they cry wolf

    Reply
    • BryanM says:
      3 years ago

      I’m sure you mean cry Wolff….

      Reply
    • Ali says:
      3 years ago

      as any other corporation in the world would do

      Reply
  2. Raj says:
    3 years ago

    Redbull is a shit team. They want rival engineers to join them early. Mercedes should have taken its people to court and made sure they remain away from F1 and not join Redbull. All teams should take this with FIA.

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  3. Brendan says:
    3 years ago

    I get the 6month gardening leave from when he left, but I don’t think it will do Red Bull any favours with going down this route in attracting or keeping key members of staff.

    Sticking to the spirit of a contract is better than the letter for an organisation like this.

    Reply

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