“Having misplaced the race a few years previous to that – once we screwed up by not having the proper tyres within the pit lane for him – that was an unimaginable second, and that simply felt just like the universe is correcting itself by him reaching that win.”
Wanting again at Ricciardo’s first season with Crimson Bull, Horner admits that the squad had been not sure about his overtaking expertise – solely to shortly have their issues allayed when the driving force from Perth began racing for the staff.
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“I believe that a few of the races, should you take a look at Hungary 2014… Our largest concern when he got here to drive for us was that we knew he was fast, however [we’d] by no means seen him overtake anyone, so we didn’t know the way good a racer he was,” Horner defined.
“As quickly as he bought in our automobile, he simply by no means stopped overtaking folks! He was so late on the brakes. Should you take a look at that race from 2014 in Hungary, should you take a look at his first victory in Montreal, the race he gained in China in 2018 I believe it was.
