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.

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

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

Helmut Marko is leaving Red Bull after 20 years, but, characteristically, it doesn’t appear like he wants to go quietly… The 82-year-old Austrian is departing Red Bull, following Christian Horner out the door after outlasting his former colleague by just a few short months.

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.