Inside the Red Bull civil war threatening to tear the team apart
Death of Red Bull’s patriarch Dietrich Mateschitz created a schism at the very heart of F1’s dominant team
Race winner Max Verstappen speaks with Oracle Red Bull Racing Team Principal Christian Horner and Team Consultant Dr Helmut Marko. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)
To understand the root cause of the internecine war raging at Red Bull, it is necessary to go back to October 2022; to the death of Dietrich Mateschitz, the team’s founding father.
Mateschitz’s passing, and the power vacuum that created, has led inexorably to what we are witnessing today; to the vicious infighting between team principal Christian Horner on the one side, and Helmut Marko, Red Bull’s octogenarian motorsport adviser, and Jos Verstappen, father of three-time world champion Max Verstappen, on the other.
