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Seidl: Ricciardo won't start as the number one

Daniel Ricciardo will not be immediately installed as McLaren's number one driver when he joins the Woking outfit next season, says team boss Andreas Seidl. Ricciardo, who will be switching from Renault yellow to McLaren orange in 2021, has three poles and seven wins in Formula 1 to his name, but Seidl maintains that won't automatically earn him preference over his younger teammate, Lando Norris. 'As long as I’m the team boss, no one at the start of the season will ever be the number one,” he told Sky Sports. “If someone has as long a road to go as we do, you need two drivers equal to each other, as we had in 2019 with Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris. “With Lando and Daniel we have...
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