Helmut Marko named Sebastian Vettel his “ideal successor” as Red Bull’s chief motorsport advisor. The Austrian was instrumental in nurturing some of the sport’s biggest stars of the modern era, including Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo. In addition to running the team's junior program, he also took on a key role in the Milton Keynes-based outfit’s senior management team in 2005.
“I think he would be the ideal successor candidate,” Marko told Sky Germany, when speaking about Vettel. “It is clear that at some point you can no longer do it, not least because of your age. Because those travel efforts are no small thing.”
