Happy birthday to Le Mans winner and Red Bull young driver guru Helmut Marko. In today's Great Read, the man behind the team's ruthlessly efficient junior programme explains what he looks for in young drivers
The public persona of Red Bull's 'driver chief without portfolio' Dr Helmut Marko is very different from the man behind that mask. And he doesn't give a fig about that; part of him even finds it amusing that he's perceived as some malevolent ogre, co-conspiring with his friend, Red Bull's mysterious owner Dietrich Mateschitz, in the mountain lair that is the headquarters of the evil empire.
In reality he's just a crazy ex-racer every bit as in love with it all as when he and his school buddy Jochen Rindt were terrorising the rural roads around Graz, trying to see how fast a car could pull a sled before the rider of the sled fell off (about 45mph), or racing a VW Beetle against a Chevrolet with the driver of the latter not allowed to pass on the straights, but only into the corners. The Chevrolet belonged to Marko's parents and had been sneaked out of the garage without their knowledge in the dead of night...
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