Red Bull Racing has seen several key figures leave this season and the Austrian success formation seems to be slowly but surely falling apart. Max Verstappen thinks it is a shame that things are turning out this way, but also states that you cannot keep people in the team who do not want to be there.
There is a lot to experience at the Red Bull Racing team this season. Although with Verstappen on the track they still have the championship leader within their ranks, a lot has of course happened in the background. We experienced the soap opera surrounding Christian Horner at the beginning of the year and since then a series of unpleasant events began for the Red Bull formation. For example, Adrian Newey announced that he was leaving the racing team with which he had so many successes and Jonathan Wheatley and Will Courtenay, among others, also followed the top designer by saying goodbye to the many years of collaboration with Red Bull in the future.
Keep things together
Naturally, there is a lot of talk about the alleged exodus of Red Bull, which of course does not seem to work out well towards the new era of 2026. Verstappen, who said at the start of the season in Jeddah that he wanted to keep the team together, is reported by Motorsport.com” href=”https://nl.motorsport.com/f1/news/max-verstappen-grapt-red-bull-bij-elkaar-houden-niet-echt-gelukt-adrian-newey-jonathan-wheatley/10659358/ ” target=”_blank”>Motorsport.com confronted with those statements: “That didn’t quite work out!” the Dutchman jokes. “As I have always said, I would of course have preferred if everyone had stayed. But at the end of the day you can’t stop some people.”
Pulling on heads
Verstappen continues: “If you try to stop people, when they actually don’t want to be here anymore, if they are disappointed or if they don’t quite get what they want, then it might be better that they take on another challenge. Even though it would have been better for the entire team, for the collective, if it remained as it was. According to the three-time world champion, it is not surprising that leaders leave, given the team’s successes: “That is always the case with teams that leave. to be successful, that is what is being pulled. You see that in every sport. And you can’t stop some people because they get such a huge offer from other teams that it [geld] also plays a role,” he concludes.
