Dr Helmut Marko is confident Red Bull will be able to defend Max Verstappen’s back-to-back titles in 2023. The energy drink owned team also won the constructors’ championship last year. “Yes, we want to defend both titles,” said Marko, the team’s 79-year-old top Austrian official. It was Ferrari that finished second overall last season, but Marko thinks Mercedes is better placed to mount the challenge this year. “But Ferrari has solved its reliability problem and now has more power,” Marko acknowledged. Marko also admitted to the Austrian newspaper Krone that Red Bull’s 2023 car is an evolution rather than a revolution. “There is an increase in performance that we can release without affecting reliability,” said Marko.

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