Marko has served as motorsport advisor to the Red Bull team since their inception in 2005 and has built up a 🌺close-knit relationship with team principal Horner. 

Horner ac🅘knowledged Marko’s importance in selecting some of the best young talents to drive for Red Bull, but he also not🧸ed the 80-year-old Austrian’s tendency to speak his mind. 

Marko’s brutally honest remarks have often la𝕴nded him in hot water over the years, and Horner admit🍸ted the media “only have to prod him” to “get a headline”. 

“I’ve ♐known him for a longꦛ time,” Horner told ESPN. “When I first met him in 1996, I needed to buy a trailer for the Formula 3000 and Formula 2 team that I had.

“Helmu🌳t, first of all, he’s a passionate racer. He was a good driꦯver himself until his accident and he’s just very direct.

“With junior drivers, he’s picked some great ones. H꧑e’s a tough operator with the junior drivers but if they can’t survive Helmut, they’ll never surv𒁏ive Formula 1.

“He’s 80 years young, he’s still watchin🌳g every Formula 3 session and following the young talent religiously. I’ve always had a very straightforward and good relationship with him.”

Horner added: “H🐬e’s a communication manager’s nightmare. When he goes rogue, then you guys [the media🐬] only have to prod him and you’ll get a headline.

“But he just calls it as he sees it. He will tell you exactly what he🍸 thinks which in many respects is very similar to how Niki Lauda was.

“That same generation, same makeup in many ways. But there’s a great respect for Helmut and what he’s done and contributed over the yꦆears and at 80 years of age, he’s still looking fo𓃲r purple sectors.”