Jaime Alguersuari was traumatized by Helmut Marko
The Spaniard, who raced for Toro Rosso between 2009 and 2011, holds a bad memory within Red Bull's little sister.
In two years, he never really convinced. In three seasons in Formula 1, Jaime Alguersuari couldn’t do better than a seventh place as his best result. Within one of the toughest teams with its drivers, Toro Rosso, the Spaniard often faced pressure. Especially from Helmut Marko.
At Red Bull, you didn’t live in peace, even with great results. You receive more congratulations from your rivals than from the team. And we have felt this way since the age of 15. Nothing was enough. And if you look, it’s the same pattern with Max Verstappen and his father. It’s the Red Bull school, he assures our colleagues at El Confidencial.
The person who is now 32 years old has quit motor racing and embarked on a career as a DJ. More than 10 years after leaving the team, he asserts that the bad memories of his time there still haunt him.
« I still have very strange dreams from that time when I sleep. I always see Helmut Marko angry, treating me like a child. It’s really traumatizing.
» The Spaniard resorted to therapies to try to overcome it, but they didn’t really work.
Sometimes, I wake up crying, I do a big lap around the track and I see Helmut Marko still angry. I haven’t spoken to him since, except for when I was a commentator at the BBC, then I greeted him in the paddock, nothing more.
