Laurent Mekies Admits 2025 Comeback Hurt Red Bull's 2026 F1 Start
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The team leader Red Bull, Laurent Mekies, has admitted that the performance increase of the Milton Keynes team at the end of 2025 was billed at the beginning of the 2026 season, although he explained that they would be acting the same way again. After a complicated start in 2025, in which McLaren stood ahead both in the builders’ championship and in the drivers’ championship with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, Red Bull and four-time champion Ma…
Mexico City.- Laurent Mekies, head of Red Bull, said that looking to go back last year affected his starting point for 2026, but they would do it again. "What happened in the second half of last year is something we will probably keep and remember for a long time," he said. "It was an incredible comeback, and the credit is from the girls and the boys of Milton Keynes for turning him around in that car. No one wanted to give up. "No one wanted to…
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= Red Bull Racing team principal Laurent Mekies has admitted that the team's performance boost at the end of 2025 had a negative impact on the start of the 2026 season. Despite these difficulties, Mekies says the decision was the right one and he has no regrets about it. After a difficult start to 2025, where McLaren overtook Red Bull in the constructors' and drivers' championships, the Milton Keynes team, with four-time world champion Max Verst…
As we know, the complicated start of the 2026 season of Red Bull Racing and McLaren F1 can be explained in part by an assumed choice: to have pushed the development of their single-seaters 2025 to the end of the fight for the title. A bet which, according to their leaders and drivers, left traces at the start of the new regulatory era, as they already said at the time of the Australian Grand Prix. With hindsight, this observation is even more tr…
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