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Red Bull pecking order defined by drivers, not team - Marko
Red Bull's Helmut Marko says Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen are on equal footing although he rates the latter's performance as superior in 2017. Ricciardo finished fifth and just ahead of his team mate in the championship, but the Dutchman's trumped the Aussie in terms of race wins, 2 to 1. Verstappen was recently awarded a lavish new three-year contract with Red Bull Racing while Ricciardo remains on the sidelines with regard to his future, leading pundits to believe the 20-year-old is now the team's de facto number one driver. "I didn’t favour [Max], but in qualifying he was most of the time faster," explains Marko. "With seven DNFs his season was not a walk in the...
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