Revealed: The eight-figure Crimson Bull payout Helmut Marko is ready to pocket

Helmut Marko is ready to obtain an eight-figure payout following his exit from the Crimson Bull F1 crew.

The 82-year-old Austrian shall be handed his full wage for 2026 when he elements methods with Crimson Bull on the finish of the yr, in accordance with German publication Bild.

Bild report Marko will pocket €10m (£8.7m) when he walks away from his function as motorsport advisor.

Crimson Bull formally confirmed Marko’s departure after greater than 20 years on the crew following the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

There was a lot hypothesis surrounding the precise nature of Marko’s sudden exit, however he himself insisted it was his choice to step away a yr sooner than deliberate. 

“I’ve been concerned in motorsport for six a long time now, and the previous 20-plus years at Crimson Bull have been a unprecedented and intensely profitable journey,” Marko stated on the time his departure was introduced. 

“It has been an exquisite time that I’ve been capable of assist form and share with so many proficient individuals. All the things we have now constructed and achieved collectively fills me with delight.

“Narrowly lacking out on the world championship this season has moved me deeply and made it clear to me that now’s the fitting second for me personally to finish this very lengthy, intense, and profitable chapter.

“I want your complete crew continued success and am satisfied that they are going to be combating for each world championship titles once more subsequent yr.”

Throughout his time at Crimson Bull, Marko was answerable for the crew’s driver improvement programme, and was chargeable for bringing via the likes of Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo.

Marko’s explosive Horner declare

Marko has since made a collection of explosive claims about former Crimson Bull crew principal Christian Horner.

“These last years with Horner weren’t nice,” he informed De Limburger. “Soiled video games had been being performed. Do you bear in mind when it was claimed that I stated Mexicans had been much less targeted than Dutch or German individuals throughout Sergio Perez’s time? That was fabricated – probably by them [Horner’s camp].

“The identical goes for the declare that in 2024 I unfold the story that our engine improvement was not on time and that we’d due to this fact lose Ford as a companion. I by no means stated that, however Horner needed to make use of it to have me suspended. Due to Max’s help in Jeddah, that didn’t occur.

“Increasingly typically, we had been capable of show that Horner lied about all kinds of issues. As soon as Chalerm realised that too, he modified his thoughts.”