Verstappen ended Mercedes’ title dominance of F1’s turbo hybrid era last year, when he clinched the drivers’ title after a last-lap overtaking move on Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
It marked the culmination of many years of conviction from Red Bull about Verstappen’s talent, as it was convinced from early on that he had the talent needed to be champion.
And, with Red Bull coincidentally having been vying with Mercedes to sign Verstappen in his junior career, its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has hailed the different attitude the energy drinks company took to the situation.
Speaking in a Dutch book Formula Max which has been published by Autosport’s colleagues from the Dutch Motorsport.com site, Marko said Red Bull approached things in a way Mercedes could not.
“Of course we knew that Max was talking to Mercedes as well, but with Mercedes he wouldn’t have come to Formula 1 so quickly,” said Marko about that period when his team and its German…
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