It is almost exactly four years since one of the most spectacular joint ventures Formula 1 might ever have seen fell apart in late summer 2022. Red Bull and Porsche had agreed to join forces in grand prix racing – only for Red Bull to pull out at the very last moment after a marathon of negotiations.
Those directly involved have rarely spoken publicly about the failed mega deal. But Fritz Enzinger, who headed Porsche Motorsport and the Volkswagen Group's motorsport activities at the time, revealed just how advanced the negotiations had become in an interview recorded on 29 July 2026 for a members' roundtable on the Formel1.de YouTube channel.
