Laurent Mekies has admitted to being surprised by Max Verstappen’s level as a driver across his first race weekends with Red Bull Racing.

Mekies was promoted from Racing Bulls to Red Bull when Christian Horner was removed from his long tenure as the CEO and team boss of the Milton Keynes-based squad.

Laurent Mekies: Max Verstappen ‘off the charts’ committed to Red Bull

Mekies stepped up into his new position with Red Bull following the British Grand Prix, having held the role of team boss at sister team Racing Bulls since the start of F1 2024.

Despite a long career at Faenza in the past, Mekies’ path had not overlapped with Verstappen in the Dutch driver’s short time at the then-Toro Rosso team when he arrived into F1 at the end of 2014 and through until mid-2016 as a race driver befor

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