The head of the silver arrows team is aware that there is a crisis within Red Bull that is being reflected in the results of its drivers.
Although the eyes of the whole world are already on Brazil, some comments are still being heard about what happened last week at the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix.
And although it was an almost perfect weekend for drivers like Carlos Sainz, the story was definitely not the same for the local, Sergio “Checo” Pérez, who finished the race last, to the clear disappointment of his fans.
Toto Wolff talks about the crisis at Red Bull
With the results of the last races and what happened at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes, assured oe24 that the performance of the Red Bulls has been affected by a particular situation: the dismantling of Red Bull.
A few months ago the news broke that the aerodynamics genius and author of the Milton Keynes team’s winning cars, Adrian Newey, would leave the team, only to later join the ranks of Aston Martin.
As if that were not enough, another Red Bull great also decided to bet on a new project, Jonathan Wheatley, who was working as sports director of the team to which Max Verstappen and Checo Pérez belong, and who accepted the position of sports director of Audi.
For Wolff, the sudden departure of key figures in the team is reflecting on the performance in a negative way: “Perez is not a P16 driver, he has already won races. And Max Verstappen is not a P6 driver. The great concern in the team with the departure of important people is now also reflected in the performance,” said the Mercedes boss.
After a completely dominant 2023 season by Verstappen and Pérez, Toto Wolff assures that no one on the grid saw all these problems coming at Red Bull, especially if we consider that for ten races, the current world champion has not been able to achieve a victory.
It seems that the gray days will continue at Red Bull, so it would not be a surprise if, like Newey and Wheatley, others begin to get off the boat of the team that once crushed everyone in its path.
