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Originally Posted by Oldtony
Judging by Honda's public thanks to Hartley it would suggest that he was a significant factor in developing the cross cultural co-operation that alowed so much engineering progress during the year.
Having a driver who has the right background, nouse and sympatico can be as important as having a hotshoe in the position Torro Rosso was in developing next years RBR power unit programmme.
Can you imagine the disaster Max could have visited on the co-operation if he had still been in an STR seat?  |
Maybe some truth here....but isn't Red Bull the team organisation that constantly pushes for the 'man of the moment'? Who else would have put Ricciardo in a marginal situation other than Marko?
Hartley/Gasly pairing was 13/17 on the teammate stats on this site, second only to Sirotkin/Stroll (16/14).
Will Kyat find himself on the margin again if he doesnt swamp is erstwhile teammate Albon and is Albon there because he is Thai, (the originator of Red Bull- 'Krating Daeng'. The basic formula in Red Bull is still produced in Thailand and Red Bull is 51% owned by the Thai family....)
Money talks..... Red Bull gives you 'wings'.....