{"id":46616,"date":"2025-10-09T05:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mekies-minimizes-his-impact-on-red-bulls-resurrection-verstappen-disagrees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T05:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:13:42","slug":"mekies-minimizes-his-impact-on-red-bulls-resurrection-verstappen-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/mekies-minimizes-his-impact-on-red-bulls-resurrection-verstappen-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekies minimizes his impact on Red Bull&#8217;s resurrection, Verstappen disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mekies stands firm on not taking credit for Red Bull&#8217;s success<\/h2>\n\nAmidst the notable performance improvement at Red Bull, team principal Laurent Mekies insists on not taking credit, a stance that, according to Max Verstappen, is too modest.\n\nSince Mekies took over the leadership in July, Red Bull&#8217;s performance has experienced a dramatic turnaround.\n\nVerstappen achieved a podium finish at the Dutch Grand Prix after the summer break, followed by consecutive victories in Monza and Baku, and secured second position at the Singapore Grand Prix.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s still zero, guys. It&#8217;s still zero,&#8221; Mekies told reporters on Sunday night when asked if he would reconsider how much credit he can take now. &#8220;And I say that with the same seriousness that I told you after Monza.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Laurent Mekies<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1006%2Fr1556375_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Max Verstappen (izquierda) junto a Laurent Mekies (derecha).\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nMekies attributes the improvement in performance to the thorough analysis of the car&#8217;s limitations and the search for how to exploit its potential, highlighting Verstappen&#8217;s valuable contributions.\n\nThe Red Bull boss emphasized that teamwork and everyone&#8217;s contributions have been key to the team&#8217;s success.\n\nMekies&#8217; approach, with his engineering experience, has brought a common sense to the car&#8217;s setup, according to Verstappen.\n\nVerstappen praised the collective effort of the team to identify and improve their weaknesses, which has led to a notable improvement in the last races.\n\nThe Dutch driver acknowledges that, although performance may vary, the team now better understands how to optimize its performance.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekies stands firm on not taking credit for Red Bull&#8217;s success Amidst the notable performance improvement at Red Bull, team principal Laurent Mekies insists on not taking credit, a stance that, according to Max Verstappen, is too modest. Since Mekies took over the leadership in July, Red Bull&#8217;s performance has experienced a dramatic turnaround. Verstappen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5578,443,444,9369],"class_list":{"0":"post-46616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-laurent-mekies","8":"tag-max-verstappen","9":"tag-red-bull","10":"tag-singapore-gp"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}