Call it the clearance of a bottleneck if you will. And “bottlenecking” was certainly a word new Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies used during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, a curious form of gerund in which the noun is deployed as a verb rather than the other way around.
When the FIA published its schedule of press conferences, in which Friday’s team representatives session featured Mekies on the sofa alongside Jonathan Wheatley – formerly Red Bull sporting director, now Sauber team principal – certain comedians in the media centre proposed a ‘dare’. Would anyone ask Wheatley if he now regretted leaving Red Bull last year, since the top job might now have been his?
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