What Marko's Red Bull F1 exit means for Max Verstappen
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Another BIG name is heading for the Red Bull exit door as Helmut Marko will leave his post as the F1 team's motorsport advisor at the end of 2025.
That will conclude a run of more than 20 years in the role, during which Marko - an often divisive character in the F1 paddock - has steered major decisions for Red Bull Racing and its second team, and overseen the junior programme that brought the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen into F1.
But his significance is even greater than that: he was key not only to the team's creation in the first place but also its rise to being one of F1's powerhouses.
And even if such a move has been anticipated in recent days it's still a major development at Red Bull, and one with potentially significant consequences: not least for the future of its star driver.
00:00 Marko gone
03:13 Legacy and failures
07:08 Impact on Verstappen?
Published: 2025-12-09 Chanel: THE RACE