Verstappen and Ricciardo joined forces as Purple Bull group mates from 2016 to 2018, and are each merchandise of the Purple Bull Junior Workforce. Regardless of some tense moments as group mates, resembling their crash in Baku in 2018, they’ve remained shut mates throughout their time on the grid.
With hypothesis over Ricciardo’s instant future persevering with to swirl, the present world champion was requested about their relationship, saying their friendship “simply clicks”.
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Chatting with Sky Sports activities F1, Verstappen stated: “Daniel and I after all go a great distance again. We have now at all times had a terrific relationship, nice friendship, a number of respect for one another as properly, so he’s only a nice man.
“[We] take to each other, it simply clicks. There is no such thing as a pretend particular person, we simply get alongside and are easygoing, we’re like that. He’ll for certain be remembered as a really quick driver, I believe everybody is aware of that, but additionally as a terrific man within the paddock.”
