“Having misplaced the race a few years previous to that – after 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 Purple Bull, Horner admits that the squad have been uncertain about his overtaking abilities – solely to rapidly have their considerations allayed when the motive force from Perth began racing for the workforce.
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“I believe that a number of the races, in the event you take a look at Hungary 2014… Our greatest 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 acquired in our automobile, he simply by no means stopped overtaking folks! He was so late on the brakes. For those who take a look at that race from 2014 in Hungary, in the event you take a look at his first victory in Montreal, the race he received in China in 2018 I believe it was.
