Christian Horner guaranteed Liam Lawson 2024 F1 seat last year
Christian Horner guaranteed Liam Lawson 2024 F1 seat last year
Liam Lawson has revealed that Red Bull boss Christian Horner told him last season that he would be guaranteed a F1 race drive in 2024.
Ricciardo was always a stop gap solution until a junior driver was ready. Anyone who seriously thought Ricciardo would get to the main team was kidding themselves
1I don't think so. I think Ricciardo was brought on board as a safety net in case Perez completely flops. Who would RBR replaced Perez with? Yuki, who at the start of the season showed how he wasn't ready to play second seat? Lawson, who is still very much a rookie? Or Ricciardo, who knows the team and has the experience and who most likely accepts he'll have to be second?
The only question mark is, how the hell is Perez still on the team? Ricciardo being let go indicates to me that Perez will be in that seat until the new regulations. RBR has gone soft.
3Ricciardo was brought in to replace de Vries. And no one familiar with de Vries was putting money on him going to the main team. He was brought in to be a safe pair of hands until Lawson or another junior was ready.
And Ricciardo already showed he wasn't going to play second fiddle to Verstappen, that's why he left in the first place.
Red Bull hasn't gone soft, this is kinda their MO. They did the same with kvyat, using him until a junior was ready.
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