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Amid a turbulent period for Red Bull, their new team principal, Laurent Mekies, is bearing the responsibility and the scrutiny, for the moment at least, with a smile.
After two weeks in charge since the dismissal of Christian Horner, Mekies and Red Bull are adjusting to a new era with a business as usual attitude even as the circumstances suggest it can be anything but, before this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.
“The timing is bloody bizarre,” the pundit Martin Brundle says on Sky Sports of Horner’s departure. “You might have thought it was something to do in the close season. But it is what it is.”
