Mekies praises Verstappen for exceptional technical feedback

Red Bull brag Laurent Mekies has been outspoken successful his praise of Max Verstappen, claiming that the Dutch operator often leaves him speechless with his expertise and car knowledge. Mekies, who took implicit arsenic squad main from Christian Horner successful July, is not 1 to mince words erstwhile speaking astir the four-time satellite champion’s endowment and dedication.

He peculiarly remembers a infinitesimal astatine the Dutch Grand Prix erstwhile Verstappen’s manoeuvre virtually took his enactment away. It was a near-perfect effort to crook the rubric contention around, but successful the extremity Lando Norris won the rubric by conscionable 2 points. Verstappen described the play arsenic the champion of his career, adjacent though the rubric yet slipped distant successful Abu Dhabi.

“As galore years arsenic we’ve each spent successful Formula 1 and arsenic galore times arsenic we’ve seen Max execute unthinkable things, each I tin accidental is that erstwhile you get the accidental to enactment connected his broadside of the paddock, helium inactive takes your enactment away,” Mekies told Motorsport Week.

"Obviously you often perceive immoderate of what's being said implicit the radio, but you don't perceive everything. So the prime of his method feedback and the level of sensitivity helium has successful the car is truly impressive."

A peculiar feeling for the car

"We adjacent had an interior gag successful the squad wherever we would simply accidental that it is the champion sensor we person successful the car. Probably the astir expensive, but that's different question," added Mekies. The Dutch operator is particularly important to the squad during hard periods, specified arsenic mid-2025, erstwhile the squad relied heavy connected his feedback. Mekies points retired that Verstappen is doing this with afloat committedness and knowing of the project, not superficially. "He is already trying to find the close keys truthful that we each propulsion successful the aforesaid absorption and recognize and admit what helium is trying to convey to america done communication."

In addition, Verstappen devotes himself to simulator races, but besides to GT3 races, truthful helium already won astatine the Nurburgring successful September. "This antheral lives motorsport time and night, virtually time and night. Probably much than immoderate of us, helium is motorsport successful a sense. Between races helium does simulator racing, and if helium has a escaped weekend, helium goes and races determination other successful GT3 cars. That seems wholly unreal to us," concluded Mekies.