{"id":15961,"date":"2025-12-09T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15961"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:10:27","slug":"f1-advisor-helmut-marko-to-leave-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15961","title":{"rendered":"F1: Advisor Helmut Marko to leave Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is to leave the Formula 1 team.<\/p>\n<p>The 82 year old has been with the outfit since they joined Formula 1 in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph is reporting that Marko will head into retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Marko, who drove in Formula 1 in the early nineties, had indicated after Monday&#8217;s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that he would take the break between championships to consider his future.<\/p>\n<p>Team Principal Christian Horner [https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/573819\/former-red-bull-boss-christian-horner-leaves-with-a-reported-184m-handshake left mid-season and was replaced by Laurent Mekies.<\/p>\n<p>Marko has been a long time supporter of four-time world champion Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Marko would have also played a key part in the hiring of New Zealander Liam Lawson in 2023 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/580796\/no-time-to-relax-for-liam-lawson\">the decision to keep him at Racing Bulls<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian was left blinded in one eye after debris pierced his visor during the French Grand Prix. He retired shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>During his time with Red Bull the team won six world constructors&#8217; championships, while Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen won four drivers&#8217; championships each.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is to leave the Formula 1 team. The 82 year old has been with the outfit since they joined Formula 1 in 2005. The Telegraph is reporting that Marko will head into retirement. Marko, who drove in Formula 1 in the early nineties, had indicated after Monday&#8217;s season-ending Abu Dhabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15963,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions\/15963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}