How Red Bull finally made Helmut Marko apologise to Sergio Perez
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Sergio Perez deserves better than to have to stomach prejudicial remarks from a senior figure in Red Bull’s F1 operation and maybe now something is finally going to permanently change.
Red Bull finally seems to be willing and able to take action on the way Helmut Marko has repeatedly made discriminatory comments about Perez, which REALLY needs to stop.
Last week Marko questioned Perez’s supposed ‘Mexican mentality’, which was just the latest of many derogatory comments about where Perez comes from in a critical context.
It’s one thing to scrutinise or even criticise Perez as an F1 driver for his performance. It’s quite another to lazily assert that perceived deficiencies exist because he is Mexican.
00:00 This needs to stop
03:01 Perez's concerns
05:56 How Red Bull finally acted
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Marko not only insulted Checo, but insulted an entire continent and the country of Mexico. In his eyes, if your are South American or Mexican, you are unfocused.
I'd say that he meant lazy. Which is crazy, Senna, Montoya, Piquet, many great drivers are from South America...
Mexicans are North American. He's Mexican.
he meant emotional and he is not exactly wrong@@CicaeMeow
lol his “eye” you mean
The problem is he actually said it out loud, like wtf man
The Mexican GP is gonna be a hostile environment 😅
They have been sending death threats to Max all year…. Insane
💩’s gonna get wild, with reason! 🤷🏽♂️
Especially after the Max Brazil 22 debacle
I have a feeling Helmut might be 'on holiday' that weekend. Max doesn't have that pleasure so he might have to pull a sickie... maybe the only way he won't win a race this year!
@@Mohagnito94 brazile whas on perez cheated there (monaco) and cheated on his wife on top of that
People trying to make sense of his words forget that when Marko used to actually race he saw nothing but the exhaust of Pedro Rodríguez whom was praised because of his precision driving under wet. So much for an "unfocused culture/country" right?
Never mind that he threw an entire continent under the bus just so casually.
Now imagine if people started to make the same senseless remarks about Marko's country of origin, like, one could say that we are lucky that marko picked up motorsports and not painting because we all know how it turned out last time an austrian got rejected from art school.
Just don't ask what Marko holds in his basement.
Now that's deep. I had no idea he raced against Pedro.
At least in Formula 1, Helmut never raced against Pedro. They both competed in the same season (1971), but Pedro raced in only the first 5 races that season and Marko in the last 5. That said, Marko's results were an 11th, a 12th, a 13th, a retirement, and a DNS. Rodriguez's results were 2 retirements, a 9th, a 4th, and a 2nd at Zandvoort to Jacky Ickx.
I don't see any other results involving Marko and Rodriguez, unless it was at Le Mans, where Marko actually was.... kinda good. At least in 2 of his 3 races.
His whole Mexican = South American = Lazy combo is kinda amusing (not even accounting for how it's wrong on multiple levels), especially since in Formula 1, Marko NEVER finished a season in a higher position than ANY South American driver. Not Rodriguez, not EITHER Fittipaldi (and Emerson WON the 1972 championship), not Pace, not Reutemann, NONE.
Go say Austrians are bad, slow, call Austrians retarded. 😂 no one would care bc it's not true. U lot on the other hand 😂😂😂
As a fellow Mexican I call tell ya guys, Checo doesn't care about what Marko says (we can take and do take a lot of 'racism shizzle'). But it's terrible that he is saying it, because it allows for other people's ignorance to grow RE: Mexicans. It's a never ending loop.
As an American Chef who works next to a tonof Mexican immigrants, we both know Mexicans work harder than any other walk of life on the planet. Everyone questions how the Egyptian pyramids were built, but no one questions the ones in Mexico. 😂😂
@@rayfinkle5048 As an Egyptian your comment is incredibly ignorant, our pyramids are much larger than the ones in Mexico too. Praising one group while tearing down another is exactly what we don't like.
Edit: This is what causes problems, people think they're being funny while doing the same exact thing they're crying about, like wtf?
@@rayfinkle5048Positive racism is still racism.
The Mexicans you work with probably have to work harder and not want to work harder...
@@aj897 I don't think he was trying to punch down on Egyptians, but I see how you can find the comment ignorant, but fyi, by volume, the largest pyramid is located in Mexico and its called the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Egypt just has taller pyramids, but honestly who cares, they're all so magnificent.
@@aj897 do yourself a favor and look up Andrew Schultz pyramids joke and you will get the reference. 😘
God lord, I've never read such a "corporate" apology ever.
Red bull is protecting itself marko could cause serious criminal consequencies for it if equality act board act
For real. They weren’t even smart enough to use diction he could author.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Christian Horner, what r u doing about this? U need to distance the team from this closet Nazi. And set up the cars not just for Verstappen, but for Checo as well.
a corporate apology shpuld not cut it, he needs to leave the sport for good.
I hope Perez gets sacked. He's crap and keeps crying
I just wanna say how much I appreciate y’all covering this seriously and loudly. This crap is unacceptable and we need pressure from the press.
Yeah, same shit as the Spanish football federation that went down a few weeks ago, this man should not be a public figure anymore and it's in the best interest of the racing team itself, I have 0 respect for RBR
How many times has this channel talked about the differences between British teams and Italian or French teams? Where you come from obviously affects your way of life...
USA and Canada share an 8000+ km border, yet the cultures are worlds apart.
@@Antonio-qn2el Now you are doing the same as Marko, hypocrite statement about the whole team who already said they are not on the same page as Marko...Sexual harassment is different than generalizing the Mexicans, the one is between 2 persons the other between a man and a whole nation...Get your shit together before putting some extra oil on the fire.
you sound like the type who would watch women's soccer. laughable@@Antonio-qn2el
You support racism as you support Hamilton!
If the FIA and F1 wanted to reinforce their credibility (We Race as 1) they would condemn this bigotry in the same way that Nelson Piquet was condemned for using unacceptable language to describe Lewis Hamilton!
Notice how F1 and FIA were very vocal about Marko..... Oh wait.
The FIA can't do that because if they condemned racism targeted towards anyone else than Lewis, Prince Lulu would claim that he is being oppressed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Banning Nelson Piquet is unfair. He’s an asshole, but we need to abolish wokeness and fake wokeness from F1
@@hugomartinez692 Yep. If Lewis actually looked up what Nelson said for example about Nigel Mansell's wife and that Mansell threatened legal action because of that, he would maybe change his perspective.
@@patepulkkinenvtec2403 Man I knew at some point LH name would come out of someone’s mouth. Living rent free in your head.
This man doing any sort of apology had me going to a window and scout the sky for a world-ending asteroid.
It wasn’t an actual apology was it? He didn’t mean it. It was forced upon him by the company
He is an extremely toxic waste of space in that paddock, he is one of the reasons I detest Red Bull
Written by a lawyer, I can promise you that. He's too old to give a shit about anything.
@@GravyHucker well he does always have one eye on something else 😂
And Marko was shite in F1, not one WDC point in his F1 career.
It reeks of PR Team.
Saying he's slow is one thing, Saying it's cause he's Mexican is another. Also comparing anyone to the likes of vettel isn't fair. Man's the biggest f1 history buff.
I can also only imagine how infuriated Vettel would be with those comments.
If he said something similar about a different driver but said "because he's White" you wouldn't have a problem with it
By now Marko has made his point enough, he needs to shut up now and let what will be be. He's not helping. Checo hasn't even been that bad in the last few races no how, how much more can you expect than P2, next to Max.
Vettel was good in RB days, but never on the same level as Verstappen, Lewis or Alonso. Especially Alonso.
Verstappen when asked why he excels when it rains: because I am Dutch.
Someone else made the comment, but Marko does give off Palpatine vibes lol. Instant classic.
I always thought he reminded me of the emperor😢
He looks like him, speaks a lil like him,,, 😝 haha he does
Bro is the Emperor 💀. Darth Maximilian takes orders from him
Helmut Marko = Emperor Palpatine
Christian Horner = Governor Tarkin
Adrian Newey = Director Krennic
Max Verstappen = Darth Vader
Sergio Perez and all other Red Bull drivers = Stormtroopers
@@spark6669😂 who is Lewis?
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was recently laughing at the “lazy Mexican” stereotype with my dad because neither of us has ever met a lazy one.
That stereotype is a complete lie.
México with 40 to 42 hours of work a week is one of the hardest working countries in the world. And that's considering stablished jobs, there are other jobs where you make 14 - 15 hours shifts daily...
It's just pure ignorance man...
@@Ronaldo1774 The actual legal number is 48 hours per week, but it might change soon to 40. Fingers crossed.
I grew up on the East Coast and I co-sign that statement. Living in Iceland now, still haven’t met one.
Just remember: All them lazy Mexicans are coming over the border and taking all the jobs from hardworking Americans.
And if you didn't see the logical fallacy there, re-read it.
It's one of my favorite arguments about immigrants because when someone says it you can just tell them "Did you actually hear what you said? Try it again, but slower."
During the 11 years I lived in the bay area, the 'laziest' Mexican I ever encountered would out work everyone on his day off.
Also, I've never been to Spain but Anthony Bourdain seemed indicate that the Spanish enjoy quite a few siestas on the regular. I've never heard Marko spout such ignorance toward Carlos or Fernando...
Let's us remember Jack Sparrow phrase: "The problem is not the problem . The problem is your attitude about the problem" Marko just out of his validity date.
Perfectly said!
He's right, South america will never be able to produce champions such as Senna, Piquet, Fangio and Fittipaldi.
🤣 and they were all in his era , the man is senile!
Perez is North American.
Another failure in geography class I see.
Well let's fix that, Latin American😊
mexico has never produced anything remotely close to senna
Actually I take that back, Ive tried top shelf tequila in Guadalajara and it is quality!! Horale chingones 🤣
The idea that Mexicans are lazy has always baffled me. As someone from the Southern US, I've seen Mexican worker working construction, carpentry, etc. all my life and they're almost ALWAYS extremely hard workers, busting their asses in 100 degree temps in July. I'm not sure where the lazy stereotype comes from.
As Colombian I can say the Mexicans are hard workers and they do not complain. This stereotype done by Marko is racial and ignorant.
Mexicans are hired for those jobs because they take less pay, you're literally celebrating cheap labor
It was not Marko who said lazy (and it is clear that he did not mean to imply "lazy", he meant to imply "unfocused"). If you believe he meant lazy, then you have your own preconceptions.
@@ronald3836 He didn´t say it was Marko who said it, you are bringin your own pre-conceptions here.
@@xavierpanohaya2647 Indeed I am guilty of the preconception that comments on a CZcams video relate to that CZcams video.
Thank you for bringing this up and digging deeper than just surface chatter. I remember Checo's comments and wondering if anything was happening and then everything sort of went silent, so its good to hear something being said because it's absolutely ridiculous and leaning towards racism to say because you are X race, you automatically don't do this or that as a driver.
Talking about what a driver does on track is always fair game, but attacking or insinuating something about their race/culture is not. Hamilton spoke about this even as a child in interviews. I am of a firm belief that there are a lot of people at Red Bull who are sick of Marko being able to just say and do whatever because he has no one to answer to because you get situations like this and often the constant never ending contradictions to what the team is ACTUALLY doing or represents. The unfortunate thing is often when you get someone like this in power, they will say something a step much too far, and then what do you do?
Can imagine what he says about Lewis behind closed doors
@@fullair24 I mean, seriously. Most people who would say something publicly also tend to be the ones that eventually get caught on hot mics in back rooms telling everyone "how it really is."
F1 = European 'neckCar
😊😊😊
Lol he didn't appologize, RedBull's PR team apologized on behalf of the organization.
I think he forgot that senna was from Brazil.
He doesn't care. Racists don't care. They only think about themselves
Piquet,fangio Emerson da América do Sul ... drugo. Campeão f2. Bortoleto campeão f3🙌
and you think Marko perceives Senna as any better?
Helmut Marko life revolves around just his lover and crush Verstappen...
THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF CULTURALLY INADEQUATE FORMULA ONE DRIVERS FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
1)Juan Manuel Fangio
2)Ayrton Senna
3)Nelson Piquet
4)Juan Pablo Montoya
5)Carlos Reutemann
6)Emerson Fittipaldi
7)Felipe Massa
8)Rubens Gonçalves Barrichello.
SOME OF THE BEST THAT EVER LIVED
quite frankly Helmut is remarkably lucky he’s in the position he’s in. if he makes those remarks in any role further down the RB hierarchy he’s being deservedly sacked on the spot
highly unlikely, RB as an organization doesnt buy into that bs
They sacked that kid who did the thing on twitch but keep Marko? Some double standards for RB lmao
Hell in ANY OTHER F1 TEAM he'd have been kicked out
for it was awful how Vips was treated@@sarminder4357
@@AmsterdamHeavy you sure?? look at what happened to Yuri Vips
The day Helmut was beaten by the legendary Mexican Pedro Rodríguez was May 30, 1971. Pedro defeated Helmut Marko in the 1000 kilometers of Nürburgring.
Pedro Rodríguez competed with J.W. Automotive Engineering team together with Swiss driver Jo Siffert. Meanwhile, Helmut Marko was a driver for the Martini Racing Team alongside the Dutchman Gijs van Lennep.
For that edition, Martini Racing Team competed with another car, crewed by Vic Elford and Gérard Larrousse, who won the competition, and the desire of that team was to finish 1-2 on the podium, however Pedro Rodríguez's car interfered, who closed the race, while Helmut was also in charge of closing for his team.
The Austrian was told to overtake the Mexican, who had a slight advantage, which is why Marko was predicted to pass. However, in the final part of the race, the Mexican defended his position and Helmut had to settle for third place.
Helmut Marko ended up very upset and accused Pedro Rodríguez's maneuvers before the press, since he considered that the Mexican hindered him when he wanted to make the pass that prevented Martini from 1-2.
Helmut Marko and Pedro Rodríguez were “partners” in Formula 1, Pedro Rodríguez died on July 11, 1971, that is, almost a month and a half after that battle with Helmut Marko. That same year, Pedro started the Formula 1 season with the Yardley BRM team and competed in the first five races, in which he scored nine points.
After Pedro's death, the team relied on Helmut Marko to finish the season, so the Austrian went up and competed with the same car as Pedro Rodríguez and yet he could NOT score points.
Despite his death, Pedro finished 10th in the season, while Helmut finished outside the top 20.
Can be this the origin of his bestial hatred towards Mexicans?
That and Marko like Hitler is Austrian.
@@Phantom096well Perez is like Pablo Escobar 😂
@@bffhbcvdhhb5396 And you are like a 🤡
far-fetched.
Any source for this specific info. This sounds like a lovely read. Love me some motorsport history with bitter rivalry 😅
Helmut Marko does this frequently. Shame Senna is not around, I would love to see Marko saying that to Senna and to see what would have happened.
Never understood why people make comments like this - race and origins have nothing to do with the man racing the car. Perez is an excellent driver who's achieved much in his career, and nothing should be taken away from that 🐐
Some ppl r just fcked up in the head...
goat? average driver at best but yea he shouldn't suffer racism
@@padoosh28 when I say goat I mean in this context of current driver's from a Latin American country, not of all time. Probs my bad for wording the original comment badly
They say it because they believe it. He’s an ignorant bigot. Simple.
@@ethanpratt330I'd say Montoya is better but Perez is a close 2nd
I don't get what Red Bull want from their second seat. You've got this generation's Michael Schumacher leading the team. So the idea is to antagonize this generational talent to get someone to come in and compete with him for wins, dividing the garage and creating tension? You're gonna bring in Lando and then what? If you give him a fair shot, you'll probably end up pissing off Verstappen who is nothing if not vengeful, just see Monaco/Brazil last year. If you don't give him a fair shot, what's the point? And if you want a clear second driver who'll bolster Max's pursuit of perfection, how does it get any better than Perez? He's most likely going to be second this year, he helped Max win his first title, he's there to pick up the slack when Max isn't there for whatever reason. Does he challenge Verstappen? No. Would you really, actually want him to? Of course not. It always blows my mind when someone sees this sort of generational driver and goes "you know what this needs? More of that Prost-Senna, Alonso-Hamilton, Hamilton-Rosberg chemistry, yeah, that'll be great for the team!"
The thing is, for the domination of that car, finishing anything below p2 is underperformance. It's all fine now but when you're consistently that far behind your teammate. It's not a good look. Opens up comments from people like Toto, Lewis and pretty everyone in the media. Which I don't think RB care too much about but they do need consistency, which Perez does not offer. So it is a tricky one.
@@yanikdavid3708 not only that but they know they can't keep that gap forever and need a consistent driver who scores for constructors championship.
RED BULL IS NOT RED BULL RACING…..
Growing up in Texas and knowing and working with Mexicans my whole life I can say they are some of the hardest workers I know!
They take less pay yes but they don't work any or less harder than White's
Poor Checo. He had the glorious comeback story...McLaren (though they kinda sucked at that time) to midfield, dropped bc rich kid Lance could never be touched, but kicked enough ass to get the RBR and has been Max's strongest teammate since Daniel, just for him to struggle AND deal with all this.
Poor him lol... Come on the guy is rich as fu ck.. There are a lot more people to have pity for in this world.. Seriously !!!
Wasn’t he dropped from McLaren for being lazy and arrogant?
@@pookachu64Checo and McLaren just never gelled
and Ron Dennis probably never liked Americans, whether north or south
@@pookachu64 helmut marko burner account
Imagine saying Perez family is not rich 😂😂😂 this poor family just happens to be friends with one of the richest man on the planet 😂
Maybe Helmut is still mad about Maximilian of Habsurg execution
Marko has never been shy about criticizing Red Bull drivers in the press - particularly number two drivers. His power within Red Bull has always seemed to be based on his relationship with Mateschitz. With that relationship ended, it's very hard to understand what value he brings to the team - or why he still has a job.
that isn't criticism, that's racism. period.
I really hope RB fire or move him aside after this year. He gives no extra value to the organization. Actually I would argue he does more harm than good to Red bull racing and the Red bull brand.
And he still has a job after totally botching it with Albon, Gasly and DeVries. And now, possibly with Ricciardo and Lawson. His record ain't that great to be frank.
He’s the shield that Horner hides behind
I'm pretty sure that even if he were to leave the Red Bull Company, the media would still wheel him out for his "take" of the day. Sadly I think we're going to be putting up with him until he's no longer breathing himself.
Not only is Marko bad for RB but for all of F1. In all my years of watching F1, I have never seen a principal/advisor talk so bad about his own driver. It never fails that Marko talks rubbish about Perez week after week. I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must be being Max's teammate and not because you are competing against Max but because of Marko's continuous public criticism. Marko has no filter and tact when giving interviews. Just when Horner has stated that Perez will be driving for them for 2024 as stipulated in his contract, you have good old Marko spitting vile about Perez and how unfortunate it is that Norris has a contract until 2025 because he would be a perfect match with Max in RB. If RB cannot fire Marko, the least they can do is restrict him from giving interviews. Not only has he insulted his own driver but all of Latin America.
He's a very rotten apple. In all my years watching F1, I've never heard anything but poison and contempt come from his mouth. Any compliment for someone is on the back of an insult to someone else.
How does one apologize for something one previously attempted to justify. The fact he still has his job says a lot about RB.
Him being an ass doesn't mean he sucks at his job.
@@adriansoul7223 The de Vries, Gastly, Albon and Ricciardo fiascos beg to differ.
@@dhv2852Daniel left BY CHOICE
@@dhv2852 which of those exactly was a fiasco and why? They all were bad at the time they were in red bull.
Watch him turn up in Singapore like nothing has happened
with a poncho and a moustache..
And make a comment about Tsunoda being Asian.
The dude needs to retire, his way of thinking is still from 1960
More like 1930’s-1940’s
1920s*
Scott - your coverage of this story is stellar. Your best work this season. Well done.
Thank you for speaking about this, this is a topic and behavior in F1 and other sports that have always been there but never publicly addressed. This has to stop and with articles like this we get the ball rolling to a better future in the sport. Thanks again and keep on going with your professional journalism!
I've been thinking about this topic for the past couple of years. Checo is clearly treated as the #2 driver and you can clearly see that if you pay attention to the interviews, interactions with the others on the team, etc. Being a minority in this sport must be incredibly difficult, and it's refreshing to see drives like Hamilton and Perez performing well.
Thanks for bringing this subject to light. Let's all hope for a better future!
Im no verstappen fan but hes treated like a number 2 because....he is a number 2
@@1greenMitsithat’s not helping buddy. Red Bull just need to join the modern world.
Marko is the only minority in this sport. No room for him now.
@@philtucker1224 Formula 1 is results based. If youre the faster driver you bring home the choccies so you get preferential treatment...in every team. Nobody cares about your feelings. Marko has a right to make fun of perez until he consistently achieves 2nd in every GP with the current rb
@@1greenMitsithere's a difference between criticism and racism, but we know the supremacy your words hide behind
He really is a stain on what is undoubtedly the best team on the grid
a necessary stain though, Horner and him pretty much play good cop bad cop to keep the team psychologically where they need to be.
@@quierover4locas nah, max and vettel are successful in spite of the RB program, not because of it. Look at how many other's they burned through who went on to be great for other categories/teams. Also, if yuri vips was fired for the n-word slip, i think it's time the axe should fall on marko.
I wouldn’t say he’s necessary at all, he’s the head of the junior driver programme, which probably has the least amount of promise it’s had in quite a long time. I don’t think there’s one RB junior driver you’d say is a likely candidate for a RB seat anytime soon, hence them signing Perez for 2021, and bringing back Danny Ric for the Alpha Tauri drive. So what is Marko actually doing other than causing a storm every few months. From the outside he just seems like a thorn in their side that they ought to get rid of.
@@hugopickering6245he got the likes of Verstappen and Vettel in the door, there aren’t many other drivers of that level that have come through in this time period, and with the quality of car Red Bull makes they won’t struggle to attract top drivers
@@klzeccwozi1290turns out, you dont need to be discriminatory to play the 'bad cop' role. Plenty of hard ppl dont need that intellectually shallow type of cap to be 'enforcers'
He knows he can say anything that comes to mind without any actual consequences
Senility!
when dietrich was alive
People are overreacting to this.
Except they explain in the video that Oliver Mentzlaff is literally over Helmet Marko as he is one of 3 new CEOs appointed at Red Bull last year after the death of founder Dietrich Mateschitz (And specifically assigned to oversee sports and media at the Red Bull group, which includes Red Rull Racing and Alpha Tauri). I guarantee whatever freedom he had being shielded by Dietrich is no longer happening anymore and if anything, him keeping a job is a far shakier prospect between these comments AND the driver decisions being made.
Like all these toxic Mexicans on social media making false accusations and sending death threats to Max, his family and friends. They can say anything and hide behind false accounts and whatsoever.
I didn't hear any outcry when Montoya said Europeans are mentally weak.
Yeah, it's the same type of thing they're freaking out about.
True 😂😂
There is no room in this sport for this kind of intimidation and bullying, Marko needs to be retired there is no excuse for this kind of behavior, it might have worked a long time ago but not now.
😭😭😭I need a tissue
This is the man who ruins racing drivers careers simply to be ruthless for the sake of being ruthless. There aren't many people in F1 that are fundamentally unlikeable now that Flavio Briatore and Ron Dennis (who is so unlikeable i kind of like him for it) are not in F1 anymore but Colossal Helmet Marko sorely tests My amiability.
I love the phrase "tests my amiability" haha
everyone is expendable to him.. except Verstappen, who he is weirdly in love with
He gives drivers a lot of money in the Red Bull Academy…… and a lot of seats
@WhiteG60 moreover the red bull way clearly does not work. Yuki Tsunoda was the last red bull academy driver to come to f1 in 2021. Inbetween was Gasly from 2017, Hartley Albon do not count as they were kicked out early on. Literally the current red bull academy is piece of poo. Ferrari and mercedes academies are the ones churning the top talent. How shocking red bull's young driver pool is dead in the water cus Marko scared them off
You don’t have to like him. He found and signed Max in 2014. The rest is history. He also signed Carlos, Vettel, Gasly, Albon, Yuki, Liam, Kvyat, Hartley, Webber, Button, DC…. To name a few big names. He brings a lot of great drivers through the junior series into F1! Doesn’t matter if you like him or not, that’s his job
Mandated apologies are always the most heartfelt 😂
Checo most likely has to keep it friendly and not make this a bigger problem for his own sake.
Ever since I've been aware of Helmut, the guy has been making sideways comments constantly.
Great job on this story! It highlights the headwinds that Checo faces every weekend when he climbs into that Red Bull. Thank you for explaining how Marko fits into the Red Bull picture. As you said at the beginning of the story Checo deserves better and Red Bull Racing has an obligation to support its drivers. If this were a tight constructors battle, this is precisely how you'd lose it.
To the people of this channel. The race boys. Thank you. Thank you very very much. The most important thing is that we are impartial with the news. You are one of the most viewed channels on f1. You have the obligation to tell the truth. And don't shut up even if you aren't a fan of a driver. Many official channels and people are still silent about this. Redbull and F1's stance of staying silent is annoying and outrageous. In Latin America this news hit hard, and we try to ensure that this fact does not go unnoticed. Thank you again for dedicating time and effort to this news. Several Latin channels have recognized and are grateful that you did not remain silent. Thanks guys.
I feel this ties in to how Red Bull responded to the Juri Vips situation, surprised that wasn't mentioned.
Red Bull even commented on the remarks made by Piquet. He isn't even linked to the team in any shape but is obviously linked to Max and they needed to protect him from that heat
A racial slur is a bigger deal than what Marko said
@@bogdan12275No, it's the same. Especially when it wasn't the first time Marko said something along these lines
I've said it before in comments, Marko is a detriment to Red Bull. It's one thing for him to chop and change his mind every five minutes about drivers, but this is way way different. Mateschitz is gone, he shouldn't have anywhere or anyone to hide behind now. He's a complete liability and needs to go.
He still has The Orange Army, and considering most of them resemble toxic footballer culture complete with the Dutch tradition of "zwarte piet", then I think Marko and Horner are going to stay together. If I were Checo, I'd quit and make an example of Red Bull to destroy their reputation. It's one thing if Max is amazing and has natural talent behind him, it's another when those that support him in the team denigrate Checo solely because he isn't the "ideal European" that gets talked about in white supremacy circles...because that's exactly what Red Bull are festering here.
Red Bull hires people of color and they have every right to speak out and if their jobs are threatened, then walk away and leave the team as a shell of what it is. Red Bull deserves it.
Hospice time for Helmut?
Psychiatrist for leftys.
And now you do the same…. You should be cancelled too then….
Juan Pablo Montoya also had to stand a lot of harassment on his F1 days, genuinely awful 😞
Max: Checo is a legend,
Lambiase: Absolute animal,
Marko: yeh! he is South American.
Sergio is a personification of hard work, his natural talent is not the best but this man worked hard to get where he is now, saying he is lazy is very insulting.
He didn't say that.
@@Hani_Santa Indeed. People who read "lazy" into Marko's comments do that only because of their own preconceptions. Marko just meant unfocused, and Perez kind of admitted his focus is not primarily on F1 (but on his family). Marko certainly should not have blamed this on Perez being Mexican, but I would have agreed with Marko if he had pointed out that paying someone $10M/year comes with the expectation of complete focus.
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Dont victimize him, that’s worst
Sergio is the Harry Maguire of F1.
marko just unleashing his inner jeremy clarkson
No, Clarkson’s comments are at least rooted in some sort of truth (which is why they’re funny)
@@theodorelasso7466lol Jerermy did imply Mexicans are lazy as well
Don't you dare compare this intolerant fossil to Jezza.. especially now
But Clarkson is funny
I'm not a believer in the Cancel Culture, but this man has to be held accountable. Checo's supposedly underperformance is being compared against who's arguably one of the sport's very best, so technically, he's the best match Max has ever had.
Then you DO believe in cancel culture, but this is the closest anyone can get to Max ATM (excluding Hamilton and Alonso)
@@hugomartinez692last time I check, accountability ≠ cancel culture
Also if a driver would’ve made that comment he would’ve been released or suspended but all he’s got to do is have someone else write an apology and release it on his behalf, real sincere.
They are supposed to be a marketing company. My wife is mexican and I am English and we can see the difference every day. I am delighted you made this video and realise you must have been so anxious about it. Bravo.
I'm almost never vocal in any of YT videos, but this time i'd like to appreciate what you guys are doing and hope that you keep pushing on this topic, as it's both serious and almost never gets enough media coverage. It feels as if something involving a latin driver always gets minimized downright to just a 'mea culpa', thrown under the rug and ignored until it happens again. We really need concrete actions from the culprits and not a simple hipocritical answer.
If it was a positive stereotype no one would care. People still talk about efficient Germans, quiet Finns, and direct Dutch all the time.
Because people hate White's and are all for anti-White hatred
Has anyone ever said Raikkonen lost a race because Finns are quiet?? Or that Vettel crashed in the 2018 German GP because he is German? There's a huge difference between saying stereotypes and using them as excuse for bad performance. Neither of them should be said in my opinion, but the latter one has much more prejudice in it.
Thank you for covering this
Amazing vid, talking about it especially when you spoke openly to checo about it ❤
Since Redbull doesn't isn't in a position to discipline Marko, they can't make a statement saying that Marko's comments don't have any support from the team? What f!@kall logic is this?
The fact that he's not a member means that they should be able to condemn his comments and show support to Checo who has been instrumental in their success over the last few years!
U got low IQ buddy 😂
Good coverage. Showed how serious and reputable this podcast can be. I applaud this
Thanks for reporting about this!
As a fellow Mexican, this is my point of view:
The best way for Checo to react against Marko’s comments is on the track, he can take motivation from this to ensure the second place 🥈 in the Championship
We understand that Checo is currently a Redbull driver and he needs to be very careful on his thoughts and opinions, in this case, he was a gentleman and for him it’s more important to preserve his job
At the same time, as fans, we should express our disagreement against these kind of comments, this should never happen again and it’s clear that no matter where you are from, anyone can be top at any activity regardless of ethnicity or nationality
My question for Redbull, FIA and Formula 1 would be:
Do we really race as one?, is Mexico 🇲🇽 and Latin America part of the one?
If these kind of comments are not acceptable, why did RB took actions against Jüri Vips and not against Marko? I mean, at least say that you have warned Marko about this and it will be the last time and no more tolerated
Thanks 🙏🏼 for the great content, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
Mexico is in north america
depends on the language to be honest, by some cultures is Central, others south, other North, for other cultures America is one continent. So.....
@@quierover4locas By this logic it could also be on the moon.
what? what language uses moon and continent names as the same one lol!!!@@MachineCreature
Wow Damn this feels like good journalism, thank you for this.
Thank you making this video. It’s is informative and respectful on a topic that is quite sensitive.
Thanks for bringing this up!
I Wonder what he’s said about Hamilton behind closed doors 😅
And what Hamilton says behind close doors. He had to apologize too, years ago. And that was accepted immediately. No one cried, no witch hunt.
Disgraceful behavior - I didnt realize this was a pattern until recently. It's especially bad because he is Sergio's boss's boss - so very difficult for Sergio to respond without it being career limiting. In any other organization, Marko would be fired.
Marko is right, we have a different mentality.
But people whine for most about anything these days.
Marko is wrong Southern Europeans have a different mentality to Northern Europeans and there all white.
Someone going to tell me that a Dutch person has the same mentality as an Italian. Its all BS covering bigotry.
Crazy how nowadays it seems to be strictly forbidden to have a negative opinion about anyone. Whats the point of freedom of speech if people want to cancel you completely if you just make one comment they might feel is offensive?
Not even Mark Webber was treated well by Marko. Sergio's getting it dirtier.
So I would like to separate this into two. One, Checo’s performance, and two, Marko’s comments. Checo’s performance can indeed be questioned but let’s remember he is the only successful partner Verstapen has ever had and in a sense, gave Max his first championship. Additionally, regardless of criticism, he is still second in the championship. At the end, that is what matters. On Marko’s comments. A serious company would have terminated him immediately.
Checo didn’t give Max his WC 😂😂stop fooling yourself. Max had battled ALL races with LH…. Not Checo. Stop with that nonsense
Best videos on the channel imo in a while, great work guys.
I can't avoid the feeling that Marko is not really a team player. It seems to me it's Marko first, everything and everyone else never higher than second. I get the same vibes from Yost Verstappen. That seems to be intensifying out of control since the passing of Dietrich Mateschitz. My racing fan friends and I have more than once speculated that Marko leaving the team would be the best thing he could do for them. While Marko may have some good ideas, there is nobody to rein him in now that Dietrich Mateschitzr is no long there.
On top of all that, Checo is very proud of his Mexican Heritage. He brings it up every time he wins. The second place finish at Monza is the first time he didn't. I noticed that and felt sad that he didn't.
This 80 year old wannabe "Niki Lauda" should immediately be sacked by RedBull
I want to see Red Bull folks react to this in Drive to Survive.
We don't watch trash.
@@richardashton5015 thinks he's too rich for the show now lol
They didn't cover Max fucking over Checo. And then Max's mom trying to start drama on Instagram. So I doubt this will be covered.
@@GeorgeVazquez we'll see! Drama sells!
DTS is fake drama bs
This is why I'm subscribed to this channel. Thank you for highlighting this!
The fact that Marko can be forced to release even a 'corporate' apology indicates that something is indeed moving behind the scenes.
Helmut Marko, the Prince Phillip of F1
I had to scroll down hard but I found the comparison😄😄
Most accurate statement in these comments.
While Checo isn't the fastest guy on the grid, guys like him, Hamilton, Zhou, Yuki, they deal with and win a different kind of fight, day in and day out.
Weak mentality
Both Checo and Yuki were brought into Red Bull and Alpha Tauri by... Marko.
A Brilliant detailed video on the subject, im happy you guys are putting attention to this as its not on, especially for a F1 team pushing to be the best, its unfair for Perez to face this kind of prejudice as well as Mexico in general, I hope Red Bull do more to make a more comfortable environment for checo especially since he's done so much for the team since the start of 2021
Poor Perez. One can only imagine how lonely he feels in that team and just have to stomach it out every weekend
At $10M/year hardly poor in any sense of that word :-)
What’s funny is that if there’s a negative stereotype about a country it’s unacceptable but when it’s positive like somebody shouting about German engineering, then it’s OK. Most of you are a bunch of hypocrites who have done the same thing if Checo doesn’t like it, tell him to go drive for Hass. I’m sure Red Bull would release him if he wanted to go.
Always on top of it
What else does it take for Checo to definitively distance from Marko and strongly condemn his comments? It’s clear Marko’s comments are coming from a place of hate. Even his follow up explanation and shallow apology (forced by the backlash) suggests he’s standing behind his comments. There should NEVER be a three-strikes policy for any type discrimination and xenophobia, PERIOD!!
Thank you for covering this. What Helmut said is not only extremely ignorant and bigoted but would be grounds for termination for someone in his position at any other organization.
Jesus christ, no wonder why they fumbled Albon, and just imagine what they would've done to Lewis
If we thought RB 2nd seat drivers had it hard, specialy agaisnt Verstapen I can't even imagine what Checo went through all this time
Won't blame his rough performances with this, but it absolutely can weight down someone
If the people who want to see you fail are your own team and bosses is really a huge burden
Poor babies 😭😭😭
I respect how successful Marko has been in his career, but I really think it’s time for him to step aside. It’s also time for the hierarchy to change now that Mateschitz is no longer with us.
Half of Europe thinks like that, people just don't say it aloud. I hope our good friends from Sinaloa pay Marko a visit in this year's CDMX GP. 😂
Thank you for this video!
Just imagine what he's saying about Lewis Hamilton behind closed doors.
Who cares, should the thought police arrest him now?
There is zero evidence for that. This is how divisions are created. I don't like the guy but please, let's keep it within the realm of fact.
Let's not start speculating now. What you're doing here is not a hair better than what Marko was doing.
He's probably saying Lewis was that awesome and dominant for so long because he is black.
Once a bigot, always a bigot. He's earned that type of speculation, particularly with him seemingly not understanding where he went wrong
Sheev Palpatine would be so cruel
There really are some ghastly people associated with RB. Marko, Piquet and (Jos) Verstappen. It is mind blowing that this sort of thing (comments on Checo) is still an issue in 2023.
Helmut Marko's dilemma is now an offense to anyone who's not Rich and influential. 😅
And this is what came out publicly. Imagine what has been happening behind closed doors...Is he slower than Max? Yes. Is he a bad driver, no at all. There is a lot of office politics in F1...unfortunately...
Perez publicly stating that his family has priority (even though he is paid $10M/year) and kind of belittling other drivers for focussing on their racing career almost certainly is what is behind Marko's statements.
Congrats on 1M The Race, nice coverage of a disheartening matter. I hate to see people treated poorly in such a discriminating way.
How TF has Marko got away with this? If he made those remarks about Hamilton the ground would've opened up under him. Stop being a helmet, Helmut.
He is a great driver. He is from Mexico.
Funny after this video I went to watch the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix and the radio message after the chequered flag from Checo was "this is how we do it man ... we work hard, this is the Mexican way." found it intresting 🤔
???? Checo says that since he started in F1…. 14 years ago…. How is that interesting?? He has been saying that for 14years
I remember watching a video from THE RACE that referenced checo being from south america
He made similar remarks last year saying Perez was drinking to much of the tequila.
Marko, Ecclestone, Stewart, Piquet. Honestly can't wait for this lot to get their filth out of F1.
what has Stewart done?
@@bilbobliblots of comments about how Hamilton in particular should retire now that he isn't winning races. Never said that about anyone else to my knowledge.
he said the F word and made someone very upset about that@@bilboblib
@icecreamstudios6955 That not grounds for removing Stewart bit will admit that Stewart not a fan of Hamiton nowadays.
@@Lastname6955 since debut of Lewis, Stewart talk trash about Hamilton