Dr Helmut Marko is not denying that Red Bull’s second Formula 1 team could be sold. Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports that, with team boss Franz Tost calling ninth in the constructors’ championship last year “catastrophic”, Alpha Tauri has been told by its owners that it may need to be sold or relocated from Italy to the UK. “But it’s understandable that Alpha Tauri isn’t satisfied with what it achieved last year. “As I said,” Marko continued, “if the team is not performing, it does not help us. “When you have one team winning the world championship and the other is ninth, that means the synergies don’t seem to be working properly.

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