Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer has outlined a further \u201crisk\u201d involved in the Red Bull project following the dismissal of Christian Horner.<\/p>\n
Horner was ousted as team principal earlier this month after 20 years in the leading position.<\/p>\n
The Briton has been replaced by Laurent Mekies, who has stepped up to the Milton Keynes-based squad after 18 months leading the Racing Bulls outfit.<\/p>\n
Red Bull is also facing the danger of losing Max Verstappen, who has been consistently linked with a switch to Mercedes ahead of the fresh technical regulations next year, amid Red Bull’s slip down the pecking order.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the F1 Nation podcast, Palmer stated that Mekies is facing a mammoth task to turn around the team’s fortunes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way the wheels have fallen off the wagon has been pretty extreme, given there’s been no major overhaul of regulations that we’ve seen in the past,\u201d Palmer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo take over what is an established front-running team, to try and work out how to make the car drivable and then put the right drivers in – it\u2019s a really big undertaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Included in next year’s technical regulation overhaul are brand new power units, with Red Bull building its own for the first time.<\/p>\n
With Mekies having little input since the project’s inception, Palmer labelled it as a high-pressure situation for the Frenchman.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you’ve got the power trains as well, that’s on the other side of it, which is on the horizon for next year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a major unknown for the whole team. And they’ve got such a good working relationship as well with Honda, they’ve had for such a long time, and they’ve been really competitive with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that’s just something else, there\u2019s a risk for them and tough timing for Laurent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer has outlined a further \u201crisk\u201d involved in the Red Bull project following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}