{"id":18202,"date":"2013-05-03T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:00:15","slug":"i-take-the-final-decision-at-red-bull-marko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/i-take-the-final-decision-at-red-bull-marko\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I take the final decision&#8217; at Red Bull &#8211; Marko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders debacle, an important question has emerged at Red Bull &#8212; who is really in charge?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Dr-Helmut-Marko\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Dr-Helmut-Marko.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>On the one side is team boss Christian Horner, who co-owns a GP3 team with Australian Webber, and who called Sebastian Vettel &#8220;silly&#8221; in Malaysia for refusing to follow the famous order.<\/p>\n<p>But not only have the sort of team orders that should have delivered victory to Webber now been scrapped by Red Bull, it seems the Australian driver&#8217;s very future at the team could soon end.<\/p>\n<p>Some suspect the increasingly strong influence of Dr Helmut Marko, the Vettel-aligned, right-hand man of Austrian countryman and team owner Dietrich Mateschitz.<\/p>\n<p>Horner found the need this week to insist that Marko actually has &#8220;no operational responsibility or input&#8221; into how the team is run, and is just &#8220;an advisor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Spain&#8217;s El Confidential claims that, mere weeks ago, Marko gave a very different account of his role at Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a director of Red Bull Racing alongside Christian and Mateschitz,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever happens in the team comes to me and, if necessary, I take it up to the owner (Mateschitz), so I take the final decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders debacle, an important question has emerged at Red Bull &#8212; who is really in charge? On the one side is team boss Christian Horner, who co-owns a GP3 team with Australian Webber, and who called Sebastian Vettel &#8220;silly&#8221; in Malaysia for refusing to follow the famous order. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[4384,128,262,1628,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18203,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18202\/revisions\/18203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}