Red Bull did not support Toto Wolff’s attempts to delay the signing of the 2021 Concorde Agreement. That is the admission of Dr Helmut Marko, after Mercedes boss Wolff and every other team ultimately signed up. Marko said one of Red Bull’s main desires was that the agreement is no longer a “fixed contract”, because “our Honda contract currently ends in 2021”. He said that by the time Wolff was going public with his concerns in Barcelona, Red Bull had already reached a deal with Liberty Media. “That’s why we didn’t join in with all of that,” he said of Wolff’s push for a universal position against Liberty. Marko said a new deal for the Red Bull Ring, and also the signing of TV rights for the company’s broadcaster Servus TV, was also agreed because “we have a good relationship with Liberty”.

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