Laurent Mekies: redefining RB’s racing mission

F1: Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Brand new name. Brand new leader. Brand new mission?

As RB enter the next era of their Formula 1 venture, is their remit still to develop young drivers for Red Bull Racing?

Outlining his vision to Tom Clarkson, new Team Principal Laurent Mekies talks about making RB more competitive in all areas, transforming the team’s culture and mentality, and how the combination of Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda will drive them further up the grid.

Mekies also discusses how much the team has changed since he was an engineer in the Toro Rosso days, how he helped persuade drivers to introduce the life-saving halo during his time with the FIA, and what working for Ferrari meant to him.

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0:00.0	After changing their logo, their livery and their leader,
0:05.0	2024 marks the start of an exciting new era for RB.
0:10.0	This team is going to be about two things.
0:12.0	People and culture. You know, you need to have the... This team is going to be about two things.
0:12.6	People and culture.
0:14.1	You know, you need to have the information flowing,
0:15.8	you need to have quick decision-making,
0:17.4	you need to be performance obsessed,
0:19.0	you need to be no bullshit, you need to be no blame,
0:21.4	you need to be all these things.
0:22.4	That's our project. and that project is very
0:25.2	personal to Arby's new team principal Laura Meckyez because he was at the team when
0:30.2	Red Bull took it over in 2005.
0:33.0	When we heard the news like in the team, we just couldn't believe it.
0:36.0	It felt like Christmas Day in a sense that the team is trying to survive day after day for so many years
0:42.0	that it was part of our DNA just to try to
0:44.6	survive for the next month let alone for the next year you know and Redwood was
0:48.5	representing the opposite vision of that you know we are going to be part of that
0:51.8	now so what then started is the
0:54.2	advantages that took you from these 85 people to where we are now.
0:57.0	Hello and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson.
1:07.0	In a career spanning more than two decades,
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