Dr Helmut Marko says he has no regrets about losing former Red Bull talent Carlos Sainz to rival Formula 1 teams. In 2015, with Red Bull’s full backing, Spaniard Sainz made his F1 debut at the junior team alongside fellow rookie Max Verstappen. “We were very strong then,” Red Bull’s driver supremo Marko told formel1.de when asked about the 2015 Verstappen-Sainz pairing. We really wanted to offer Sainz a contract because him and Verstappen were very close. Initially, Sainz was loaned out to Renault, Marko reveals that quite quickly “the contract (with Red Bull) was completely cancelled”. However, Dr Marko says he has no regrets about letting Sainz go.

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