Marko isn't the team, as we have learned earlier this year.Wouter wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 20:05.Just_a_fan wrote: ↑21 Jul 2024, 17:26
It's not in his nature - he has to win everything, every time. Anything less is seen as a failure. Probably got that from his dad.
But the team need to take Max aside and have a quiet but very firm word with him.
Manage the points from here or you will risk losing the title even with your current lead. And swearing at us down the radio isn't going to help anyone so stop that too.
Is that so? Dr. Helmut Marko doesn't agree with that!
.Marko admits mistake Red Bull: 'We completely underestimated that'
Marko admits Red Bull mistake at Hungary Grand Prix
At the German branch of Sky Sports, Marko admits that Red Bull's update package has not had the desired effect. The 81-year-old Austrian stresses that the updates did produce better lap times, but not as many as expected and certainly not as many as Max Verstappen had expected.
" We completely underestimated how difficult overtaking is here," he explains.
"We thought our speed advantage would be enough, but we couldn't overtake. That's why our strategy was wrong."
It's the rest of the people who actually manage the races that matter and need to be respected by Max. GP, for example, shouldn't be expected to put up with the stuff that Max was shouting at him on the radio today. It's not his job to put up with petulance from a grown man.
You can disagree with the team over the radio in a civil manner. Lewis did it today by questioning the timing of pit stops. But he didn't swear and spit his dummy like Max did. Time for Max to grow up.