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What is the Red Bull Junior Team? A look at Helmut Marko's F1 legacy

Several racing drivers have graduated from the Red Bull Junior Team under Helmut Marko’s leadership

Motorsport · Dec 22, 2024

What is the Red Bull Junior Team? A look at Marko's F1 legacy

Several racing drivers have graduated from the Red Bull Junior Team under Helmut Marko’s leadership

Autosport · Dec 22, 2024

Friday favourite: How Coulthard impressed Red Bull’s original Dutchman

Max Verstappen may be the most successful Dutchman in Red Bull’s Formula 1 history, but he isn’t its first driver heralding from the Netherlands. That honour is bestowed to Robert Doornbos, who stepped up from his third driver role to replace Christian Klien for the final three grands prix of…

Motorsport · Nov 22, 2024

Friday favourite: The “perfect” F1 test venue with a little bit of “magic”

“I really love this track,” says Franck Montagny of the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. “I remember my chief engineer in Renault’s test team was always saying ‘if there was a championship of 15 races in Jerez, you are world champion every year’.”

Autosport · Apr 5, 2024

Friday favourite: The LMP1 beast that became an extension of Davidson

“The car I always felt was ‘my’ car, that I could always be quick in, was the first Peugeot 908, the V12. I don’t know why, it just clicked, like an extension of my body. I could be quick on new tyres, old tyres, wet and dry.”

Autosport · Mar 29, 2024

Details of McLaren's DTM project with Dorr Group revealed

At the beginning of February, the ADAC announced McLaren as the seventh manufacturer for 2024, but refused to provide any details about the British manufacturer’s first proper programme in the series.

Motorsport · Mar 13, 2024

Friday favourite: The Peugeot "spaceship" that wowed an F1 veteran

Just five race outings in the Peugeot 908 were enough for Christian Klien to select the turbodiesel LMP1 machine as his favourite racing car. A solitary win, achieved in the 2009 Spa 1000km when Audi stayed away, was the high point of the Austrian’s involvement with the Peugeot factory squad…

Autosport · Feb 9, 2024

“Talks with British manufacturer” - Is McLaren entering DTM with Project 1?

McLaren has had a very brief history in the DTM so far, with three guest outings for Formula 1 driver Christian Klien in 2021 the only time it was officially represented in the series.

Motorsport · Dec 3, 2023

Red Bull's axed F1 star reveals brutal six-word goodbye message from Helmut Marko

In the same week that Nyck de Vries was axed from the AlphaTauri sister team by Marko, another former Red Bull prodigy opened up on his own abrupt exit from the stable

Daily Mirror · Jul 12, 2023

F1 team "generated millions" despite losing £140k diamond in Monaco GP publicity stunt

The iconic Monaco Grand Prix has generated plenty of F1 memories over the years, but one huge big money mystery that dates back to the 2004 race remains unsolved

Daily Mirror · May 27, 2023