Ad-free F1 pod: Untangling Red Bull's driver mess
Added 2024-07-14 23:00:03 +0000 UTCThe pressure is piling on Sergio Perez after another disappointing weekend at Silverstone, with rumours intensifying that Red Bull could replace him, despite the Mexican only recently signing a contract extension. So should we expect him to be sacked as Max Verstappen's team mate, and if he is who might replace him? And furthermore, how did Red Bull get itself into such a mess with its drivers? Mark Hughes and Dutch TV commentator Nelson Valkenburg join Edd Straw to discuss all of these topics, and more...
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just pay off Haas to swap Checo out for Hulk at this point if you don't trust any of your own drivers. Surely he's the driver with the most to offer that they could possibly afford.
carma strikes
2024-07-15 23:21:21 +0000 UTCI can't help wondering if Checo is a modern day Giancarlo Fisichella. Fisi was "brilliant in a bad car", to paraphrase Jenson Button. Checo was brilliant at Team Silverstone and was strongly backed by many people to be hired by Red Bull over Albon for 2021.
Simon Emms
2024-07-15 07:58:41 +0000 UTCI feel you are being harsh on the Red Bull junior program. It’s accomplishing what Marko wants it to accomplish. To then praise Mercedes junior program is just baffling. They have one of their juniors driving for them, one not. Their reserve driver is a Ferrari cast-off that they don’t feel confident enough to put in the Merc seat (despite Toto saying he should be in the grid). Vesti is gone. Ocon never drove for Merc. Where is Weirleihn? Aron? The Red Bull junior program is doing just fine. Hesitating on pulling the trigger (which may happen soon anyway) shouldn’t be an indictment of the whole program.
Fatboy
2024-07-15 07:50:39 +0000 UTC
