Having seen no obvious sign of improvement from Nyck de Vries across his 10-race AlphaTauri spell, Helmut Marko said it was time to pull the trigger. NyckDeVries RedBullRacing Formula1 F1
Marko, a man known for his unrelenting, and occasionally brutal, honesty, said De Vries lacked the pace to be in the sport.“Why should we wait and what do two more races matter if you don’t see any improvement? Nyck is a very pleasant guy, but the speed just wasn’t there.”
But Ricciardo’s tyre test in the RB19 for Pirelli after the Silverstone race had Christian Horner reaching for the phone to call Marko, with the decision made very quickly to drop De Vries in order to give the seat alongside Tsunoda to the Australian – Ricciardo returning to the team with whom he raced for two seasons in 2012 and ’13 before stepping up to Red Bull.“His lap times were competitive, on three different tyre sets,” he said.
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