TALKING POINT I AM BITTER
“It didn’t make sense,” he added
of the decision to switch to a threestop strategy after Ferrari had done
so with Vettel. “It’s frustrating, I think
we just threw the win away. Sure I’m
bitter right now. Not with Max, not at
all, just bitter at the situation.”
Red Bull principal Christian
Horner, who saw “uncanny”
similarities between Verstappen
and a young Vettel, said the Dutch
youngster would only grow in
confidence but also offered words
of support to Ricciardo.
“At that point in the race it was
far from obvious which was the
quicker route to go and we felt Vettel,
as the biggest opponent, we would
take him on with Ricciardo,” he said
of the strategy.
“I said it before the weekend
and I really believe we’ve got
the strongest pairing of drivers in
Formula One now,” a