US EditionHelmut Marko Didn’t Understand Max Verstappen’s “Thought Process” During Spanish GP: “All Hell Broke Loose”
- During the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, Max Verstappen collided with George Russell, triggering a race-altering incident.
- The incident followed a lap 61 safety car restart, with Verstappen frustrated after losing position and resisting instruction to concede fourth place.
- Verstappen received a 10-second penalty and three license points for causing the collision at Turn 5, which demoted him from fifth to tenth place.
- Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko expressed puzzlement over Verstappen's decision, calling his actions unnecessary and noting Verstappen was "so heated" during the final laps.
- Verstappen issued a social media apology for the unsportsmanlike move, but the penalty leaves him one point away from a race ban and 49 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri.
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"It was a mistake to think that a new tire would be better than a used one," said Dr. Helmut Marko Red Bull's strategy in Barcelona for Max Verstappen's missed race in the ServusTV broadcast "Sport and Talk from Hangar-7."The decisions are made at Pit-Wall. There are 70 people working on it. We went in with a two-stop strategy, but we noticed that we can't go along with the pace and reduce the tires. That was the right decision. We were close to…
Is Max Verstappen soon driving alongside Formula 1 also in another racing series? Helmut Marko is now listening.
"Emotions simply got the better of him," Marko reflects on Verstappen's incident with Russell
On the back of Max Verstappen's hectic end to the Spanish Grand Prix, Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko conceded that he does not "know what kind of misjudgment or thought process was going on inside him."
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