In his first interview since replacing Christian Horner, the Frenchman says his aim is simply to give Max Verstappen the fastest car on the F1 grid
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eaching the pinnacle of any sport might be considered a moment to savour and reflect. To luxuriate even, in the contentment so sparingly yielded at the highest level. None of which, strikingly, is the case for Laurent Mekies, the new team principal of Red Bull, who concedes only to an overwhelming, almost Sisyphean, commitment to moving ever forward, ever upward.
“There is no such thing as having made it, you always feel you are surviving,” he says. “You always feel that you should have done more yesterday, more a week ago. To step up next week, next month. You never feel you made it – never, never, never.”
The Frenchman leads one of one of the most successful teams in Formula One’s modern era, a role he took on two months ago after the former team principal Christian Horner was sacked. It is one of the most high-profile and high-intensity positions in the sport, what might be considered a herculean task for the 48-year-old to go with his own self-imposed boulder rolling.
