Formula 1: Ted Kravitz has paid a touching tribute to Daniel Ricciardo as reports circulate he's set to be replaced by Liam Lawson.
If you’re Red Bull owned RB, it’s worth nothing more than four soft tyres at a late-race pit stop , enabling the Australian to set the fastest lap of the Singapore Grand Prix and bow out of a long Formula 1 career on something of a high.New to Kayo? Start Your Free Trial Today >What might be the final action of Ricciardo’s grand prix racing career has brought a simmering point of tension back to boil, and with a live battle for both championships, the stakes couldn’t be any higher.
This was of direct benefit to sister team Red Bull Racing, which lost less ground to McLaren in the constructors championship, and to Max Verstappen, whose drivers title lead was dealt slightly less damage. “Given this may have been Daniel’s last race, we wanted to give him the chance to savour it and go out with the fastest lap,” team principal Laurent Mekies said in his post-race media statement.
“At no point do I have elements now to say Racing Bulls went for the fastest lap to support Red Bull,” he said. “I just find it a little peculiar.” “Dietrich Mateschitz stepped in. He acquired the team and shored the team up, and obviously then he invested significantly in the Faenza facilities.” “The two teams are totally separate. One is based in Italy. One is based in the UK, the one that is based in Italy has a far larger turnover of staff that end up in Maranello than end up in Milton Keynes. They have different personalities, they have different characters and they comply continually with the regulations.
“No other sport to my knowledge allows co-ownership of two teams that compete against each other,” he said, per“I think the sport, as we’re now in the budget cap era, has moved on to where we’re trying to have 10 independent teams from a sporting, from a political, from a technical point of view. Early in the season this manifested in rumours that Red Bull Racing was sending staff to RB without gardening leave — unimaginable for transfers between other teams — which also would have helped the senior team to meet the budget cap without having to make surplus staff redundant.
Those rumours and others have since died down as RB has struggled for competitiveness. This has always been the case in Formula 1 — successful teams always receive heightened scrutiny from rivals — but it’s also because RB’s struggles have pushed it well outside Red Bull Racing’s sphere of performance.
Of course the counterargument is that Norris has already cost himself many more points off his own bat this season than the one he lost to Ricciardo at the weekend. He’s let fly 21 points just by failing to convert pole to victory three times this year, a far more compelling number.
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