Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko believes that the team have been able to diagnose the power unit issue that saw Max Verstappen qualify 10th in Hungary. Coming into a race where Ferrari were expected to be quicker, Verstappen looked to be giving the Scuderia a run for their money during the first two qualifying sessions,
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Red Bull and Ferrari do not believe that Charles Leclerc’s accident at last weekend’s French Grand Prix was at all related to “porpoising” and bouncing. The phenomenon has appeared this season amid the arrival of the new technical regulations, which have brought about the return of ground effect aerodynamics. It meant a complete change to
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has confirmed that his team are planning to bring more upgrades to their 2022 car as they look to seal the championship. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, between them, have won eight of the opening 12 rounds of the season, and have established a dominant advantage over Ferrari as
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Mark has indicated that Sir Lewis Hamilton’s camp deliberately waited until the British Grand Prix race week to unearth racist comments made by Nelson Piquet. Piquet was giving an interview in November last year when he appeared to use a slur to describe Hamilton while he was analysing the seven-time
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Six teams are expected to counter the FIA’s proposed changes to the technical regulations next season as they attempt to counter “porpoising” and bouncing. In Canada, the govern body started measuring the cars to see how much the cars were oscillating and, as of the Belgian Grand Prix, teams could be asked to raise the
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has made a reputation for himself by being extremely hard on his drivers over the years, and Daniel Ricciardo was no exception. The Australian was promoted from Toro Rosso to replace the departing Mark Webber for the 2014 season, and Sebastian Vettel had a new Australian to contend with
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Senior Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz had a “toxic” relationship during their tenure at Red Bull’s junior team. The Spaniard joined Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2015, partnering Verstappen in his debut season in Formula 1. Sainz stayed at the Faenza-based team until the end of 2017,
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Red Bull adviser Dr Helmut Marko has revealed that he warned Sergio Perez of the dangers of going around the outside at Turn Four, particularly on the opening lap. Perez’s predecessor – Alex Albon – had tried the same thing on Sir Lewis Hamilton in 2020 when the seven-time champion hit him, turning a prospective
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Ferrari have arrested their woeful lack of form in the last two rounds in Silverstone and Austria – at least partially. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc have, between them, claimed each of the last two races for the Scuderia, but they have – as is typical – done things the hard way. An almost inexplicable
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Dr Helmut Marko is known for his no holds barred opinions of his drivers, past and present, and he gave a very frank overview of some of the drivers he has worked with over the years. In the Red Bulletin before the Austrian Grand Prix, he spoke about Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who started in Formula
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