Former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes that the Red Bull F1 team is at risk of ‘becoming a dictatorship’ if the company’s Austrian contingent wants to get more involved with the squad’s management.

It was tremendously entertaining, and a nightmare for the press officers of Red Bull, who were powerless to stop him. After all, Marko had been the company founder Dietrich Mateschitz’s right-hand man in F1. He didn’t answer to anyone at the F1 team, of which he was a director, with his contract being with the parent company.

Helmut Marko, the long-time motorsport advisor for Red Bull, is leaving the company at the end of the year.

Marko was already advising the energy drink giant on driver development before it acquired what is now the Red Bull F1 team.

Well then, this is big. Helmut Marko, Red Bull’s long-serving ‘motorsport advisor,’ has decided to leave the outfit he helped shape into a Formula 1 juggernaut at the end of 2025. Which is… sort of now, then.

Helmut Marko, the ever-present architect of Red Bull’s modern racing empire, will retire from his role and from F1 at the end of the year.

Red Bull motorsport advisor Dr Helmut Marko has decided to leave the team, bringing to an end over two decades of influence as part of the multiple championship-winning set-up.