“It was a huge surprise, a bit like that was for you. I asked them for a few hours to think about it. It takes a little time to digest it. Quite quickly, you realize that it is Red Bull who asks you to take this responsibility, with all that this brand means. It is an honor, an enormous opportunity. I was able to start at Milton Keynes the next day. The first thing is to try to know the team. The first two weeks were dedicated to meeting as many people as possible.said Laurent Mekies48 years old, to our microphone.
And add: “The team has won an incredible number of world championships. You have a gigantic quantity of talents. So I will try to understand the aspects where we want to take steps forward, where we want to create other advantages of competitiveness compared to our opponents. The talents are there, it is a question of taking a step forward to allow them to express themselves.”
Laurent Mekies therefore replaces Christian Hornerthe former successful boss of the team. “It was incredible. It is important to recall that it is him, with others from management, who took me to the Red Bull family two years ago. We worked very close to each other in our respective roles. Despite the complicated context of the last weeks, he called me. We exchanged some messages recently. No one can look like Christian for all that was to do.
The Frenchman has work to do: he landed in a perdition team whose main asset, a certain Max Verstappencould leave the ship.
