
This weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring was supposed to be a celebration of the Red Bull team’s 20th year in Formula 1.
Billed as a pageantry of the energy drink’s success, involving plenty of PR - including the use of a 180mph super-drone developed by Red Bull Advanced Technologies - to capture the moment, it is also an opportunity to toast the team’s late founder and Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz following his death in October 2022. And perhaps, it posed a chance to cast all its recent strife and stories of boardroom battles into the past.