Helmut Marko continues to follow Formula 1
Helmut Marko he enjoys his retirement but never stops following and commenting on it Formula 1. And while, when asked about it, he admits that he no longer received any offers to return to the paddock after saying goodbye to Red Bull (“My choice to no longer do anything in F1 has been accepted”) the former manager of the Milton Keynes stable and mentor of Max Verstappen However, he continues to follow the races on TV, even without being enthralled by the show, at least up to now.
“Have I gotten used to Formula 1? Well no, at the moment the sport only lives off the spectacle offered by the Ferraris at the start – explains the 82-year-old in an interview with the Austrian online newspaper OE24 – but, if we remove this, ultimately not much happens. Most overtakes are not true overtakesbut only overshoots. But we are still at the beginning of the season and perhaps things will change as the races go by”.
George Russell towards the title
Helmut Marko then also commented on the situation at home Mercedeswith his compatriot Toto Wolff who laughs at having put two dominant single-seaters on the track, even though they ended up under the watchful eye of their rivals for the technical solutions that have been so much discussed and continue to be discussed since the beginning of the year: “Mercedes is in a league of its own and I don’t think it’s even showing its full potential. Kimi Antonelli is a good rider and has always been fast, now thanks to the greater number of GPs under his belt he also makes fewer mistakes. Fight for the title? No, everything speaks in favor of George Russell, he has enormous experience”.
Adrian Newey’s difficult time at Aston Martin
Finally, despite his enormous experience, the one who doesn’t seem to be able to find a way out of trouble for the moment is his former teammate Adrian Neweyplunged into the crisis ofAston Martin-Honda in this sensationally disappointing start to the F1 season: “Yes, we talked and he’s not doing well. In this project there are problems that will not be at all easy to solve quickly”, concludes Helmut Marko.
