Helmut Marko: Drivers dont have the fun we did in the 60s and 70s
Red Bulls motorsport adviser on how times have changed, as Formula One returns to Austria on Sunday after eleven years
A film of Helmut Markos life would start here, his surviving eye moist with memories as it surveyed the fresh glory of the Red Bull Ring on the eve of the Austrian Grand Prix. It will be an emotional moment for me, because I thought it was all over here, says Red Bulls motorsport adviser. To see top motor racing back in my country is a wonderful feeling.
I remember the first grand prix here, in 1970. It was an unbelievable atmosphere. We lost the race here twice. And when we lost it the second time, in 2003, when it was owned by the government of Styria, it looked like it would never come back.
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