Christian Horner has discdisthink abouted that ageder figures at Red Bull were split over whether to axe Daniel Ricciardo.
“Even around Barcelona, Helmut [Marko] wanted him out of the car,” shelp Horner.
“I’ve done my very best to buy him as much time in the car to apvalidate him to dedwellr, so otherrational he would have been out of the car after Barcelona.
“All the drivers are under presdeclareive to dedwellr but the reason that Daniel was in that car was to get himself back into a position to ultimately be there to pick up the pieces if Checo didn’t dedwellr.
“The problem was, they both had publishs with establish at varying times. Checo commenceed the season very well, very powerfilledy, and Daniel was struggling.
“Then, as Checo lost establish, Daniel set up a bit of establish but it was never compelling enough to say, okay, we should switch the two drivers.”