Regardless of Christian Horner’s feedback, former F1 staff supervisor Joan Villadelprat believes that Purple Bull should half methods with Helmut Marko resulting from his remedy of drivers.
Experiences have circulated that the 80-year-old may depart the staff on the finish of the season resulting from ‘energy issues’ behind the scenes, however staff principal Horner has shut down these claims and insisted such motion will not be a consideration.
However Villadelprat believes {that a} cut up is critical although resulting from Marko’s ruthless remedy of drivers, with Sergio Perez the newest to really feel the Austrian’s wrath.
Villadelprat instructed PlanetF1: “Take Helmut Marko away from the f**king staff. Each time he opens his mouth, the one factor he’s doing is hammering. It’s an space that you just don’t want to speak about as a result of, if issues don’t go effectively and issues are robust for a driver, you don’t want any individual telling you that you just’re ineffective.
“If you’re a supervisor and you’ve got lots of people working with you, there are numerous methods of working. You may have some folks that you could be behind hammering them. That’s the way in which that you just encourage them. However you might have folks that you just don’t must hammer. Once they make a mistake, you choose up the items and put them again once more. So assist him to get again into the place.”