Mekies after Max's masterclass in Baku: 'No one has ever given up'

Published on 21 September 2025 by Coen Versteeg

Laurent Mekies, team principal and CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing, said after Max's dominant victory in Baku: “This win started with a Max masterclass in Qualifying yesterday. We didn’t know what race pace would be like as nobody really got any long runs on Friday, but he just pulled away lap after lap, another Grand Chelem, pole, in the lead from start to finish and setting the fastest lap.”

Mekies continues: “The win is down to everyone in Milton Keynes pushing so hard to make the car faster. There is no silver bullet, but no one has ever given up on this season in terms of understanding why we were not reaching the level we wanted and, little by little, the work that Max and Yuki have been doing with the whole team has been paying off and at least, here and in Monza we were back in the game. We are not leaving any stone unturned in this 2025 campaign. We are fighting to get more and more learning, to unlock more and more understanding because even if the 2026 regulations are completely different there is always a lot we can carry over from this season. Yuki had a very strong race, keeping the McLaren and Ferrari behind him. He needed a clean weekend and he performed really well scoring important points for the team in what is his best result of the season.”