Dr Helmut Marko has taken on a brand new position as ambassador for the Crimson Bull Ring, house of the Austrian Grand Prix, which can happen on 26-28 June.
The 82-year-old stepped down from his place as motorsport adviser and chief of the junior workforce at Crimson Bull on the finish of 2025. Talking throughout an occasion in Vienna on Thursday, Marko confirmed his new position to Austrian publication OE24.
Marko labored as an adviser to Crimson Bull from the time it joined the Components 1 grid in 2005 and oversaw the Crimson Bull Junior Staff since its founding as a driver improvement programme in 2001. He was instrumental within the improvement of four-time champions Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen and different drivers, together with Daniel Ricciardo, Carlos Sainz and Pierre Gasly.
“We had a tough season this yr,” Marko stated after confirming his retirement in 2025. “It was notably bumpy within the center. We have been 104 factors behind in Holland. Then we began a comeback that was definitely distinctive. However sadly, it did not work out within the final race. We misplaced the championship by two factors.
“Though this comeback was distinctive, it was nonetheless a really bitter disappointment. It hit us notably laborious. Even after the race, I felt that one thing had been misplaced.
Helmut Marko, Crimson Bull Racing
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“I then stayed in Dubai on Monday. That is once I made my determination. Even when we had received, it might have been an excellent motive to depart this job. However now, in hindsight, as a result of we misplaced, it is also an excellent level.”
The Milton Keynes outfit is now confronted with a troublesome season forward because it struggles with the 2026 regulation change. It presently sits sixth within the constructors’ standings after the primary three rounds of the yr. Verstappen is presently ninth within the drivers’ standings with 12 factors and his new team-mate Isack Hadjar is twelfth with 4 factors.
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