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Last Updated: March 10, 2024, 00:01 IST
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Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen’s mentor Helmut Marko mentioned Saturday he’s staying with Red Bull, after Verstappen indicated their futures on the workforce had been linked amid the fallout from Red Bull’s investigation into workforce principal Christian Horner.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen’s mentor Helmut Marko mentioned Saturday he’s staying with Red Bull, after Verstappen indicated their futures on the workforce had been linked amid the fallout from Red Bull’s investigation into workforce principal Christian Horner.
“I am continuing, yes,” Marko instructed German broadcaster Sky Sport. Marko mentioned a dialog with Oliver Mintzlaff, the Red Bull CEO who oversees the drinks firm’s sports activities operations, had gone nicely.
“It was a very good conversation and obviously calm needs to return to the team, and that has priority today. We agreed on all points,” the 80-12 months-previous Austrian mentioned.
Marko had beforehand instructed Austrian broadcaster ORF on Friday that “theoretically the possibility always exists” that he won’t be with Red Bull after this weekend’s occasion in Saudi Arabia. Later that day, Verstappen gave Marko his robust help and indicated he may re-study his future with Red Bull if Marko had been to depart.
Last week, the workforce’s mum or dad firm dismissed a criticism of alleged misconduct by Red Bull workforce principal Horner towards a workforce worker.
A day after the Horner criticism was dismissed, a file alleged to comprise proof towards Horner was emailed to just about 200 folks within the F1 paddock, together with Liberty Media, F1, the FIA, the opposite 9 workforce principals and a number of media retailers. The supply of that leak has not been disclosed.
Marko mentioned Saturday that any suggestion he might need been concerned in such a leak could be “complete nonsense.”
Marko has lengthy had a task overseeing the 2 F1 groups owned by Red Bull on behalf of the mum or dad firm, with a specific deal with growing up-and-coming drivers comparable to Verstappen, who made his F1 debut on the age of 17 in 2015.
A former F1 driver within the early Nineteen Seventies, Marko was a detailed adviser to Red Bull co-founder and fellow Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz, who arrange the Red Bull workforce in F1 and who died in 2022.
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