Turns out Red Bull team
The premise being that Verstappen is the faster driver and Ricciardo didn’t want to be humiliated by his younger team mate.
But it turns out it’s not as complex a situation as Christian Horner has been trying to engineer.
Ricciardo had retained a dignified silence until now. The Australian was simply concerned that Red Bull would
That’s why he opted to leave Red Bull for Renault. In a recent interview Ricciardo responded to claims he was “running from a fight”:
“They want to make him (Verstappen) the youngest World Champion in history.”
I have nothing against Max. We always got along well and that was even the case after the incident in Baku.”
“I never thought that I couldn’t work with him or that the team would give him a better car.”
“But I think that in the event of a fight for the title, the team would be on Max’s side.”