Red Bull senior adviser Helmut Marko swiftly pressed the mute button after criticizing Max Verstappen’s use of his downtime following a discouraging DNF in Melbourne, claiming it was “too much.”
By winning at Albert Park, Verstappen hoped to tie his own F1 record winning run and win ten straight races, but by the second lap of the race, both his plan and the rear right brake of his Red Bull RB20 were destroyed.
Helmut Marko divulges a mystery Max Verstappen’s ski excursion
As he pursues a third consecutive victory in Suzuka, Verstappen will now want to put that setback behind him. Marko will discuss one of the ways Verstappen has been attempting to take a break from Formula 1 in between races. It is only a method by which he is meant to be prohibited from doing so.
Before the race weekend, Verstappen revealed to F1 2024 that he had not been skiing for five years due to a combination of his own injury concerns and the “no dangerous sports” clause in his bumper Red Bull contract, which runs until the end of 2028. Marko had told OE24 that Verstappen had been skiing in Japan.
When Marko questioned Verstappen about his Melbourne DNF, Verstappen responded, “Unfortunately, a defect like that happens sometimes.” Max has been skiing in Japan in the most amazing, world-class deep snow in the interim.
Therefore, the Austrian said, “I’ve already told you too much anyway,” in response to Marko’s apparent contractual ban.