Mekies hails Red Bull’s ‘faultless’ Singapore execution

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Laurent Mekies praised Red Bull’s Singapore execution after Max Verstappen won the sprint and grand prix, crediting staff across Milton Keynes with extracting more performance from the package.

From the GPBeat newsroomPublished · 12 Oct 2026, 10:14 · 1 min

Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies called the team’s execution over the Singapore Grand Prix weekend “faultless” after Max Verstappen won the sprint and grand prix. Mekies praised the work of Red Bull’s wider organisation in Milton Keynes.

After Red Bull’s first win of the 2026 campaign at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, the team won both the sprint and grand prix in Singapore. The successive victories came on circuits with contrasting profiles. Verstappen also secured both pole positions and the weekend’s maximum points.

Mekies credited work across the chassis and power-unit sides, the teams of Ben Hodgkinson and Pierre Waché, and Red Bull’s support functions with extracting more performance from the package and finding lap time. He said the team’s strong execution had been less visible at the start of 2026, when the car had a little less pace.

Red Bull can now fight on “quite a few different layouts”, Mekies said, calling that an indication of the team’s strength in Milton Keynes.

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