Mercedes couldn’t have vetoed Williams’ decision to sign Alex Albon for 2022, Jost Capito, the team principal of the Grove-based team, has insisted. Albon lost his Red Bull seat at the end of the 2020 season, following a poor campaign in which he was comprehensively outpaced by team-mate Max Verstappen. Buy an F1 TV Pro
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AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly says he deserves another shot at driving for Red Bull, and is disappointed they opted to extend Sergio Perez’s deal instead of bringing him back into the main fold. An impressive 2018 season at the then-named Toro Rosso earned the Frenchman an opportunity at the Red Bull team in 2019 alongside Max
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Alex Albon has said that being on the sidelines of Formula 1 at the start of the 2021 season was “torture”. The Thai driver had raced in F1 in 2019 and 2020, but he found himself out of a seat at the end of last year after Red Bull opted to replace him with Sergio
MoreRed Bull favoured Max Verstappen and forced Alex Albon to be his “bridesmaid”, IndyCar team owner Dale Coyne has said. Albon and Verstappen were team-mates for a season-and-a-half, and over this time the Dutch ace comprehensively outperformed the Thai driver. READ: McLaren Surprised To Be ‘Genuinely’ Very Close To Mercedes & Red Bull Some people
MoreSenior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has revealed what all of Red Bull’s “second drivers” since Daniel Ricciardo have struggled with relative to Max Verstappen. The Milton Keynes-based team have found it difficult to find a team-mate capable of consistently getting close to Verstappen, and they have fielded three different drivers in their second
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has admitted that the team’s “pressured environment” contributed to the downfall of Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon at the Milton Keynes-based team. Gasly was signed as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement in 2019 but he was axed after around half of a season, with him being demoted back to the sister
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Nico Hulkenberg has joked that he will cry if he watches Red Bull this season, given how competitive their RB16B is. The German driver had been tipped to be in contention for a 2021 seat at the team last year after a number of exceptional stand-in performances at Racing Point. READ: Russell Open To Fighting
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Scuderia AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly has responded to Dr Helmut Marko’s claim that Max Verstappen would have outqualified him in equal machinery at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix. Gasly impressed many in the paddock by qualifying fifth on the grid for the season-opener, but Dr Marko seemingly downplayed his achievement by saying he believes Verstappen
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McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo has opened up on his relationship with former Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen, insisting they “never hated each other.” Ricciardo departed Red Bull at the end of 2018, as he felt the team was favouring Verstappen as they looked to make him the youngest ever F1 World Champion. Follow us on
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Hundreds of F1 fans have slammed senior Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko on social media for his recent remarks about Pierre Gasly’s qualifying performance in the 2021 season-opener. Specifically, Dr Marko said he believes Max Verstappen would have managed to set a faster lap time than Gasly’s best effort – which was good enough
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