The Red Bull Move
If the World Championship between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris is decided by one or two points, one of the first thoughts will be on what happened at the end of the Singapore GP. Racing Bulls pitted Daniel Ricciardo who managed to snatch the lead on soft tyres fast lap to Lando Norris.
The Australian driver may have said goodbye to F1 in this way, given that the announcement of his debut now seems certain. Liam Lawson in 2024 starting from the next event, the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.
Max Verstappen was warned by radio on the lap of honour that Ricciardo had taken the fastest lap away from Norris and the Dutchman said “Thanks Daniel“. There is a great friendship between the two, consolidated after difficult years in the same garage. Ricciardo had returned with the hope of working alongside Verstappen again, but the clock and the results were not on his side. In order not to lose Lawson, the Red Bull family seems intent on saying goodbye to Ricciardo again, who may have said goodbye with a small, but potentially precious, farewell gift. A move that will certainly not have pleased Zak Brown, who for years has emphasized how unfair it is that Red Bull has a satellite team in F1, a team that, as what happened today shows, can also act as a tactical weapon against rivals because by sacrificing Ricciardo it was not necessary to prevent Perez from scoring a point by stopping him in the pits again.
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