Helmut Marko: Mercedes’ Employees Switch Would Have Never Happed Under Niki Lauda


Helmut Marko: Mercedes’ Employees Switch Would Have Never Happed Under Niki Lauda

Niki Lauda and Helmut Marko

It is not as unknown affair that Red Bull have recently acquired several of Mercedes’ employees for their new engine project. According to the advisor of the Austrian team, Helmut Marko this would have never happened under the watch of Niki Lauda. To those who are not aware, as Red Bull prepare to take on the running of Honda’s power units from 2022 and eventually manufacturer their own. 

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Jones worked at Mercedes HPP with Andy Cowell, who was responsible for the hugely impressive Mercedes V6 turbo-hybrid engines and decided to walk away from Formula 1 in 2020. It marked another key signing for Red Bull, who have also hired Ben Hodgkinson, Head of Mechanical Engineering at Mercedes HPP, who has become Technical Director at Red Bull’s equivalent department. 

What was Opinionated by Helmut Marko? 

Dr. Helmut Marko

We’re a cool team where passion comes first,” Marko told Austrian outlet OE24. “It wouldn’t have happened to Mercedes under Niki Lauda; he was closer to his engine people.”  Helmut Marko and Honda’s Masashi Yamamoto recently explained the same to the media and quoted by RacingNews365.com on how Red Bull’s engine programme will work in 2022 and beyond.

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