Helmut Marko believes Red Bull’s resurrection in F1 this season is a feat only the Milton Keynes-based team can achieve.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Marko also pinned Max Verstappen’s resurgent form in recent rounds on the transformation of the RB22.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the campaign, Red Bull was over a second off the front-running pace of the once-dominant Mercedes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, such is the rate of rapid improvement from the Laurent Mekies-led squad; its package was strong enough to triumph in Sepang and Singapore, having come tantalisingly close just the weekend before in Azerbaijan after the introduction of its Baku-specification floor and aerodynamic upgrade.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Winning on merit is something Mekies and Verstappen had specifically targeted, as Red Bull and the Dutchman faced the looming prospect of a first victoryless season since 2015.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked for his thoughts on Red Bull’s revival, Marko underlined how impressive the turnaround has been.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“That’s something only Red Bull Racing can achieve,” the team’s former adviser told Krone. “The car was only fourth fastest at the start, and now it’s winning again.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“You can also immediately feel how Max comes alive and is highly motivated again. Singapore was certainly one of the best races of his career.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tVerstappen’s premonition<\/p>\n
Such was Verstappen’s faith in the RB22 update that arrived in Baku that Marko shared that the four-time F1 drivers’ champion felt victory around the Marina Bay Street Circuit was possible weeks in advance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
F1’s original night race was one of the last mountains in the championship for Verstappen to scale, having never previously triumphed there.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Now, Marko feels the 29-year-old can kick on and beat George Russell and Lewis Hamilton to second in the F1 drivers’ standings, behind Kimi Antonelli, who is almost certainly soon to be crowned champion.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Funnily enough, he’d already said three weeks before that he could win Singapore,” The Austrian revealed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Now that they’ve given him a good car again, I believe he’ll still become vice world champion.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helmut Marko believes Red Bull’s resurrection in F1 this season is a feat only the Milton Keynes-based team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945017,"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-945016","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\/945016","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=945016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}