{"id":47684,"date":"2025-10-10T05:14:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mekies-takes-merit-away-from-red-bulls-resurgence-verstappen-praises-him\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:14:29","slug":"mekies-takes-merit-away-from-red-bulls-resurgence-verstappen-praises-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/mekies-takes-merit-away-from-red-bulls-resurgence-verstappen-praises-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekies Takes Merit Away from Red Bull&#8217;s Resurgence, Verstappen Praises Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mekies remains humble in the face of Red Bull&#8217;s improvement, Verstappen praises his impact<\/h2>\n\n\nRed Bull boss Laurent Mekies continues to downplay his role in the team&#8217;s remarkable performance improvement, something Max Verstappen believes is due to his &#8220;excessive modesty&#8221;.\n\nSince Mekies took over the leadership in July, Red Bull&#8217;s performance has experienced a significant change.\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\nAfter Verstappen&#8217;s victory in Monza in September, Mekies avoided taking credit for his impact since taking office. Three races later, his opinion hasn&#8217;t changed.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s still zero, guys. It&#8217;s still zero,&#8221; he 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 al jefe de Red Bull, Laurent Mekies (derecha).\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nCaption: Max Verstappen (left) with Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies (right).\n\nMekies explained that the improvement in performance is due to the collective work to analyze the limitations of the car and how to optimize its potential. He highlighted the importance of Verstappen&#8217;s contributions in this process.\n\nThe change in performance has led to Verstappen being considered a real threat to Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in the fight for the drivers&#8217; title. The current champion is 63 points behind the leader with six races remaining.\n\nVerstappen has praised Mekies for his work since taking office. Mekies, with experience in engineering, has brought a more pragmatic approach to the car&#8217;s setup, according to Verstappen.\n\nVerstappen commented that Mekies is &#8220;probably too modest&#8221; about it.\n\nThe pilot highlighted teamwork and the analysis of details as key factors in improving performance.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekies remains humble in the face of Red Bull&#8217;s improvement, Verstappen praises his impact Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies continues to downplay his role in the team&#8217;s remarkable performance improvement, something Max Verstappen believes is due to his &#8220;excessive modesty&#8221;. Since Mekies took over the leadership in July, Red Bull&#8217;s performance has experienced a significant [&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":[657,5578,443,444],"class_list":{"0":"post-47684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-f1","8":"tag-laurent-mekies","9":"tag-max-verstappen","10":"tag-red-bull"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684","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=47684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}