{"id":357058,"date":"2025-12-20T05:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357058\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:47:14","slug":"former-f1-boss-delivers-clear-verdict-on-helmut-markos-red-bull-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/357058\/","title":{"rendered":"Former F1 boss delivers clear verdict on Helmut Marko\u2019s Red Bull departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Haas team principal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/guenther-steiner\" title=\"Guenther Steiner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guenther Steiner<\/a> has commented on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/helmut-marko\" title=\"Helmut Marko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helmut Marko<\/a>\u2019s exit from Red Bull.\u201cI don\u2019t know if they are better off, but I don\u2019t think they will be worse off because the team is well established\u201d- Guenther Steiner<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Red Flags podcast, the Italian-American believes the Milton Keynes-based team will be able to cope with his absence without any major issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they will be worse off. I don\u2019t know if they are better off, but I don\u2019t think they will be worse off because the team is well established. Under Laurent\u2019s leadership, they know what they want and what they do. Since he came in, he has done a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, should they need him again next year, Steiner believes it would only take a phone call to bring him back and have him lend a hand, as he has done for the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/marko-6939926594fbc.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"marko\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Race Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf something happens, Helmut Marko can always come back. That\u2019s my opinion. If they feel something is missing after the first half of next season, they can just call Helmut back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelmut\u2019s situation also has to do with his age. Travelling to all the Grands Prix has simply become a bit more difficult for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marko\u2019s stunning admission after Verstappen title loss<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian was keen to shoulder part of the blame for Max Verstappen missing out on the title, saying that \u201cwe didn\u2019t provide him with a car that was on par often enough and I partly blame myself for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman lost the championship by just two points to Lando Norris, falling short of completing a comeback that would have rewritten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> history \u2014 even if the feat will nonetheless live long in the collective memory.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/markos-stunning-admission-after-verstappen-title-loss-partly-blame-myself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here are Marko\u2019s comments on the matter.<\/a>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has commented on Helmut Marko\u2019s exit from Red Bull.\u201cI don\u2019t know if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,28673,576,577,931,6114,2190,82],"class_list":["post-357058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-guenther-steiner","tag-helmut-marko","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357058","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=357058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}