F1 Gossip: Red Bull rules out signing ex-Mercedes F1 engine guru

In th✤e latest F1 gossip column, Red Bull has ruled out signing the man behind Mercedes’ dominant V6 engine, while the latest season of Netflix’s F1 documentary - ‘Drive to Survive' - launched on Friday.
Red Bull consultant Helmut 🦩Marko has rule෴d out signing ex-Mercedes engine chief Andy Cowell.
Cowe🍎ll was responsible for Mercedes’ High Performance Powertrains division, with it respo𓆏nsible for producing Mercedes' dominant V6 power unit at the start of the hybrid era in 2014.
In⛄ an interview with , Marko admitted Red Bull was interested in signing Cowell to its new F1 engine division but said: “he is not currently an option”.
The l﷽ates🉐t season of Netflix’s F1 documentary - ‘Drive to Survive' - launched on Friday.
Here’s the ten episode titles and who they will be focusing o💯n♏:
1. &nb🌊sp;Cash is king - Preparing for the new COVID-impacted season
2. Back on track - The start of the new season
3. Nobody's fool - Focus on M✅ercedes’ Valtteri Bottas
4. We need to talk♒ about Ferrari - Ferrari's worst season since 1980
5. The end of t𒁃he affai🤡r - Ricciardo's decision to leave Renault
6. The comeback kid -🌸 Pierre Gasly’s win at Monza
7. Guenther's choice - Haas’ driver changes 🍌for 2021
8. No regrets - Sainz’s move to Ferrari
9. Man on fire - Grosjean’s fireball crash
10. Down to the wire - End of the season
2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg says he has sympathy for Mick Schumacher because, like him, his father was a successful F1 world cไhampion and the added pressure that entails. ()
Pirelli believes F1's 2021 cars are as fast as last year's 𝔉despite the FIA making technical changes in a bid to slow them down on safety grounds. ()
Former F1 driver and Channel 4 T✨V pundit David Coulthard doesn’t think Lewis Hamilton’s decision to sign a new contract with Mercedes so close to the start of the season suggested he was contemplating retirement. ()
A fake reproduction of Ferrari’s 2019 F1 challenger - the SF90 - was seized by Italian cust🦂oms on arrival to the country from Brazi🍰l.
The copy was a 1:1 scale version of the SF90,🉐 without the mechanical and technical parts. ()

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