Choose your camp comrade. On one side, the pro-Horner, the boss of the Red Bull team, accused – before being cleared – of “inappropriate behavior” towards an employee (she launched proceedings with the International Federation on Saturday). On the other, the Verstappen clan. That of Helmut Marko, whose destiny is obviously linked to that of the Dutch pilot whose career he shaped. And if the price has to be paid, the elder will bear it. The advisor to the Austrian team – but also to Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of the Red Bull empire, who died in 2022 – is not afraid of anything or anyone. Or does he hide it with skill. It’s difficult to read an ounce of emotion in his valid eye.
