Max Verstappen-Daniel Ricciardo Partnership Can Become Red Bull’s Driving Force

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Published: May 14, 2016

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Perhaps the biggest compliment you could pay Max Verstappen is that, for two-thirds of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, he made the best driver in Formula One look average.

Over the opening four races of the 2016 season, Daniel Ricciardo had established himself as the outstanding performer on the grid, recapturing the understated speed and consistent class of his breakthrough year in 2014.

As he told MotorSport.com's Pablo Elizalde during winter testing, he entered his third season as a Red Bull driver reluctant to get his "hopes up with anything," but the sheer level of his performances had returned the belief, the momentum and the magic to a team recovering from its first winless campaign in seven years.



Fourth in Australia was the maximum result on a day considered decision-making was of paramount importance, and an identical finish in Bahrain—a circuit that should have exposed the limitations of his Renault-powered RB12—was a just reward for keeping a calm head when so many misplaced theirs.

China was one of those weekends where he was left to rue a "missed opportunity" despite taking "every opportunity" available. Yet his recovery from an early puncture to claim another P4—just seven seconds away from the podium—allowed him to celebrate "the equal best race" of his career, per MotorSport.com's Adam Cooper. 

And he would have almost certainly maintained that run of form in Russia had it not been for Daniil Kvyat's self-destructive start to his home race, which saw the 22-year-old nudge Sebastian Vettel into his team-mate, hit the German for a second time at the following turn and ultimately cost himself a seat at Red Bull.



Although he was left to stagger to an 11th-place finish with a damaged car, there seemed to be little doubt that Ricciardo—even as Nico Rosberg maintained his 100 per cent winning record at t...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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