{"id":432908,"date":"2026-01-23T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432908\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:08:09","slug":"red-bull-f1-team-boss-mekies-on-why-2026-is-a-new-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432908\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull F1 team boss Mekies on why 2026 is a new dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have a special episode with two conversations from the Autosport Business Exchange in London.<\/p>\n<p>ABX is a gathering of leaders from across motorsport, exploring relevant themes. It takes place in London, Monaco and New York every year.<\/p>\n<p>As we head into a new season with so much renewal and so many question marks, the theme for London this year was The Power Shift.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We hear from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/red-bull-racing\/36469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Red Bull Racing<\/a> CEO and Team Principal Laurent Mekies, who was parachuted into the team mid-season in a moment of crisis and almost pulled off the most incredible comeback in the history of Formula 1.<\/p>\n<p>And with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> team achieving a $6bn valuation recently, teams have become a highly desirable asset class, driven by scarcity value, burgeoning revenues and effective cost control.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>The JA on F1 Podcast will be taking a break for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Producer Ben Holmes and Executive Producer Jason Swales. And thanks to you for listening.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week we have a special episode with two conversations from the Autosport Business Exchange in London. ABX&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,226442,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-432908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-ja-on-f1-podcast-red-bull-f1-team-boss-mekies-on-why-2026-is-a-new-dawn","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908","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=432908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}