'They helped us because there was talent and we were worth it. But deep down they are looking for another driver profile.' F1
Alguersuari began racing full-time for Toro Rosso in 2009 and a year later Sainz joined the Red Bull group as part of their junior team.
“I say it with my hand on my heart. Red Bull wants to find drivers in the middle of a lake, who are not known, not their family, not their friends, and who only depend on Red Bull. Alguersuari was informed of the team’s decision to let him go late in 2011 and was asked if Helmut Marko, who oversees Red Bull’s junior programme, explained the reasoning behind their decision.“The only thing I know about all that is that when Franz Tost called me the day after the Cepsa event at eight o’clock in the morning to tell us that Red Bull couldn’t help us anymore and that he had bad news… And he hung up on me.
“He [Marko] led me to understand that in Red Bull it’s not just one, but a ‘board’ behind, with different interests, that decides.
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