Red Bull development driver Sebastien Buemi has commended the team atmosphere change following the arrival of Laurent Mekies.<\/p>\n
Just a few days following the British Grand Prix earlier this year, Christian Horner was removed from his post as team principal of Red Bull, ending his 20-year stint in charge of the team.<\/p>\n
Horner was replaced by Mekies, who stepped up following 18 months in charge of the Red Bull sister squad.<\/p>\n
Red Bull has continued to develop the RB21 challenger deep into the season as Max Verstappen seeks to cause a title upset in a battle against the two McLaren drivers.<\/p>\n
The development path under Mekies has seen Red Bull return to front-running contention, resulting in a positive atmosphere inside the squad, according to Buemi.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaurent is a guy that I\u2019ve known for over 15 years,\u201d\u00a0Buemi exclusively told RacingNews365. \u201cHe\u2019s a great guy, and he’s been in F1 for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s experienced big organisations, including Ferrari.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s obviously difficult for me to clearly say, but I feel like it’s a combination of things. Laurent is here, but also the performance is back, so the mood in the team is incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are pushing as hard as I’ve ever seen. So it’s very hard to say what he brought.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut somehow, him and some of the updates and together, it’s just made it a great environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
A significant Red Bull upgrade was delivered at the Italian Grand Prix, with a change to the floor helping Verstappen win three out of the following five races.<\/p>\n
When asked to expand on what made the difference with the upgrade, Buemi replied: \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can say without saying things that I shouldn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
\u201cThose small tweaks enabled the team to go more extreme in some of the settings of the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat gave, basically, more grip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull development driver Sebastien Buemi has commended the team atmosphere change following the arrival of Laurent Mekies.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262729,"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-262728","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\/262728","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=262728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}