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Given the information that appeared in the German media that indicated the possible sale of AlphaTauri after the change in the management of the Red Bull team manager, Franz Tostand his counterpart in Red Bull, Christian HornerThey denied it.
However, the advisor Marco Helmut He confirmed that “AlphaTauri will remain an in-house team” and acknowledged that Red Bull is looking for ways to improve the team’s performance both on and off the track.
While the Red Bull team has enjoyed great success and prize money after its titles in recent seasons, which culminated last year in the World Constructors’ Championship, AlphaTauri has been slowly slipping away.
Its ninth place in the 2022 Championships means it has become more expensive to maintain, and is therefore difficult to justify as a way to promote small clothing brand AlphaTauri.
While late Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz was fully committed to funding AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s new CEO, Oliver MintzlaffAbove all, it is more important to the team’s performance on the asphalt.
Marcoa Red Bull advisor, explained that they had to “do something” to change the team’s sporting and financial performance.
“It is true that Alfauri’s ninth place in the Constructors’ Championship is not what we expect,” Marko said in an interview on the company’s YouTube channel. Motorsport.com’s sister publication, Formel1.de.
“It means there has to be an improvement. And it’s also true that the financial commitment at AlphaTauri is very high, and that means we also have to do something on the sponsor side, on the revenue side.”
Helmut Marko, Advisor to Red Bull Racing
“During this process we also discussed possibilities, but it was always very clear that AlphaTauri would remain within the company. This is an important part of our small business.”
“But as we mentioned, neither the sporting nor the financial performance meets Red Bull’s standards, so we have to do something to change that.”
One option considered in the German press was a move from Faenza (Italy) to England, where AlphaTauri’s aerodynamics and wind tunnel department is based in the UK, but Marko says the whole move on the part of the Italian team “is an exaggerated interpretation” when this point.
“Obviously we are looking at different options, including moving to England,” he explains. “AlphaTauri already has more than 100 employees in England. It’s a split between Italy and England because it’s much easier to find employees in England.”
“But the idea of the whole team immediately moving there is also an exaggerated interpretation.”
Asked about the satisfactory result of the team and its drivers Yuki Tsunoda and Nick de Vries in the 2023 Formula 1 season, Marko replied that “anything between sixth and seventh place. [en la clasificación de constructores] This is acceptable.”
After the first race, they were in eighth place without yet opening their points square.
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