Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton<\/a>\u2019s 2020 track record to pip Lando Norris<\/a> in qualifying.<\/p>\n The Dutchman\u2019s advantage on race day was 19 seconds after McLaren gambled on a suboptimal strategy by switching to the softs late on.<\/p>\n Marko is confident Red Bull will be particularly strong at high-speed circuits.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n However, he hinted that Red Bull gave reasons to be optimistic at every race now.<\/p>\n \u201cFor Baku, the fast circuits, I\u2019m very optimistic. I am hopeful for Singapore, the only race we didn\u2019t win so far,\u201d Marko said, as quoted by Motorsport.com.<\/p>\n \u201cNormally on slow circuits, but I believe now everything is possible in this period.\u201d<\/p>\n In a separate interview with Servus TV, he added: \u201cI believe that with the speed we\u2019ve shown, we should hopefully be able to compete on our own merit at almost every circuit. Singapore would be special \u2014 it\u2019s the only race we\u2019ve never won. But maybe it\u2019ll work out there too.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re still fine-tuning and refining things. If we can keep improving like this, that would be fantastic. The championship is gone, but a few more wins would be very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201dRebirth\u201d for Red Bull<\/p>\n Marko hailed the early influence of new Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies.<\/p>\n Laurent Mekies<\/p>\n Marko cited Mekies\u2019 engineering background and how that\u2019s helped Red Bull solve some of their setup woes.<\/p>\n \u201cThe difference is that the preparation is a different one,\u201d he explained. \u201cLaurent is an excellent engineer, so it\u2019s more about: Take whatever the simulation is showing you, but mix it with the experience like Max has or the experience our engineers have. Make a car which is predictable and driveable.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically it\u2019s the same [car]. Some updates were coming and they were working, but 20 seconds on McLaren, I wouldn\u2019t have predicted that.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cThis feels like a rebirth for us \u2014 we\u2019re all overjoyed. The atmosphere is fantastic, and the Red Bull spirit is back.\u201d<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helmut Marko is \u201cvery optimistic\u201d about Red Bull\u2019s chances in the remaining part of the season after returning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,2190,82],"class_list":["post-148189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Laurent](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gv0vswrwyaanjgc_0.jpg\")
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