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Red Bull must manage their talents, not just produce them
They may not admit it, but Red Bull's young driver programme is failing, and they only have themselves to blame. The team have been forced to hire a driver outside of their own talent pool for the first time since 2007, with Sergio Perez replacing Alex Albon for the 2021 campaign. This is not due to the programme not providing good enough talents, but instead is because of their own mistakes in managing such talents. At the start of the 2018 season, things could not have been much better for the team in terms of drivers. Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, perhaps the two best to come from the programme since Sebastian Vettel, were in the Red Bull seats and Carlos Sainz, while driving for...
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