Former Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski has provided a theory on Helmut Marko’s exit from Red Bull.<\/p>\n
Marko announced his departure from the energy drink organisation just a handful of days after the F1 season came to a close in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
The Austrian’s conclusion with Red bull brings an end to his 20-year stint with the team, in which he acted as an advisor and oversaw the recruitment of drivers such as Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
Marko’s departure from the squad followed other major exits this year, including technical maestro Adrian Newey and team principal Christian Horner.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the RacingNews365 podcast, Budkowski suggested the installation of a new management structure naturally led to Marko ending his association.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pure intuition on my side, but that relationship between the new management at Red Bull, [Oliver] Mintzlaff and Helmut has been tense,\u201d Budkowski said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelmut has been part of the team for the last few years, for some reasons which are partly related to the support from the Verstappens.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy reading of it is that it got to a point where that tension was too strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were too many differences of opinion. Mintzlaff and the Austrian side is willing to take more power and certainly more authority decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt got to a point where probably the Austrians and Mintzlaff didn’t really want to have Helmut around, and Helmut didn’t really want to work in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marko has also played a key role in the driver line-up decisions at the team in recent years.<\/p>\n
Budkowski suggested that taking away such responsibilities from Marko would have left the Austrian in an uncomfortable environment to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHelmut is very binary, and he needs to have full freedom and full decision-making power to be happy in his role. I don’t think it was the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it’s possible that he decided to go, it’s possible that he was pushed – but in any case, I think it got to the point where that relationship wasn’t satisfying for either side.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski has provided a theory on Helmut Marko’s exit from Red Bull. Marko…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-372793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372793","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=372793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}