In the round-up: Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko wants Daniel Ricciardo to raise his game.
In brief
Tsunoda impressed Marko more than Ricciardo
While neither Ricciardo nor team mate Yuki Tsunoda has scored a point so far this year, Marko is more encouraged by what he’d seen from the less experienced RB driver.
At least Tsunoda is very good in qualifying,” Marko wrote in his column for Red Bull-owned publication Speed Week. “There’s a lot at stake this season for both Yuki and Daniel. Yuki’s qualifying performance was very good and Ricciardo has to come up with something soon.”
Pass for lead “pretty straightforward” – Verstappen
Max Verstappen said his pass for the lead on Lando Norris last weekend was “pretty straightforward” and his overriding concern was to look after his tyres. Norris moved into the lead by deciding not to join most of his rivals in pitting when the Safety Car came out.
“He didn’t stop, so naturally he was ahead of me,” said Verstappen. “It took a few laps for me to warm up my hard tyres. I didn’t want to take too many risks as well because when you don’t have a lot of grip, it’s easy to make a mistake around here.
“At one point, once the tyres had a bit of grip, I could catch him and pass him. So it was pretty straightforward.”
Prost reunited with his first McLaren
Alain Prost will perform his first demonstration run in the car he started his grand prix career in later this week. The four-times world champion will drive a McLaren M29 in the Historic French Grand Prix, which will take place at the Paul Ricard circuit from April 19th to 21st.
He scored a point on his debut by taking sixth place in the car at the Argentinian Grand Prix in 1980. However Prost became frustrated by a series of suspension failures in the car which caused crashes, and left the team at the end of the year to join Renault.
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Ferrari is reported to be courting several members of Red Bull’s technical team in the wake of the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner.
Red Bull will Verstappen nicht zwingen (Auto Motor und Sport – German)
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