Marko looks forward to Austrian Grand Prix: 'Then your heart melts'
F1 News
- Toby McLuskie
At the age of 80, Helmut Marko still travels the world, with the Red Bull Racing team to which he has been consistently attached for many years. For the next Grand Prix, the Austrian does not have to go far. The Austrian Grand Prix is scheduled at the team's own Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. Marko is very much looking forward to the race in his native country, OE24 reported.
Red Bull won all Grands Prix this season, so the team is also the clear favourite for Spielberg. Max Verstappen will try to achieve his fifth career win at the Red Bull Ring. " Max has won here more often than anyone else," Helmut Marko also knows. "The track suits him, the many Dutch encourage him. Spielberg is almost a home race for him, alongside Zandvoort and Belgium, where he was born."
Hoping for Austrian national anthem
For Marko, the race in his own country is always special. In the end, he looks forward to several things: "When you arrive [at the circuit] and see the excitement, the full stands with lots of Dutch orange in front of the Max, your heart just melts. When at the end our national anthem sounds [for the 101st Red Bull victory] ..." tells the Red Bull advisor.
Marko himself will also be in action. Like Jos Verstappen, he is taking part in the annual Legends Parade. Marko will be driving a BRM (made in Austria), with which he competed in Formula 1 in 1971. Now it remains to be seen whether Marko still fits in the car: "Yes, it is still possible," he counters. "I wonder if my original bucket seat is still in it."