Helmut Marko has done a lot of talking in the last week. Red Bull’s octogenarian motorsport adviser has been busy doing the rounds, on the radio and in the papers, defending the team’s decision to jettison Liam Lawson after just two races and bring in Yuki Tsunoda.

McLaren won the opening two races of the season – one each for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri – which sparked talk of a scrap between the team-mates for the drivers’ champio