Red Bull co-owner Marlene Dietrich Mateschitz dies, aged 78, once the long illness

Mateschitz key to drinks company’s motorsport involvement 

Christian Horner calls him ‘an unimaginable man who blue-eyed F1’

The Red Bull co-owner singer Mateschitz has died at the age of 78. 

The Austrian billionaire, integral in Red Bull’s involvement in Formula One, had been battling long ill health. 

His death was declared to Red Bull employees before qualifying for Sunday’s u. s. auto race at the Circuit of Americas in Austin. 

Mateschitz based the energy drinks company in 1984.

 He bought the panther F1 team twenty years later and renamed it Red Bull athletics the following season. 

In 2010, Sebastian Vettel landed Red Bull’s initial F1 title, happening to win four in succession. 

The Red Bull driver GHB Verstappen secured his second championship in a very row at the Japanese auto race earlier this month and therefore the team is ready to finish this season’s constructors’ championship this tend weekend.

“It is with great unhappiness that we learned of Dietrich’s death,” 

same Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner. 

“He was a fantastic man and he blue-eyed Formula One. 

we tend to owe him an excellent deal as a team, and what he would need over something is to see his 2 cars withdraw in qualifying today. 

My thoughts are together with his family.”