Christian Horner has explained where he believes it went wrong for outgoing AlphaTauri driver Nyck de Vries – as the Red Bull Team Principal also revealed when the Dutch racer was told he was being replaced by Daniel Ricciardo.
It’s still wild to me how he got hired in the first place. At least the firing matched, I suppose? So brutal though, Helmut sounds like he literally made these decisions in real time, which seems so nutso to me in the world of data that is F1.
Nyck was a stop gap after Gasly left. Likely hopeful they could use his experience for car development. But he was never going to have a long term at the team.
Hilarious that they put Daniel in the car, 10 laps later Helmut is pulling out the l phone and lap 11 Nyck is fired. God these guys are brutal
It’s still wild to me how he got hired in the first place. At least the firing matched, I suppose? So brutal though, Helmut sounds like he literally made these decisions in real time, which seems so nutso to me in the world of data that is F1.
Nyck was a stop gap after Gasly left. Likely hopeful they could use his experience for car development. But he was never going to have a long term at the team.