Red Bull and AlphaTauri have decided to retire Nick de Vries after 10 races in which the Dutchman failed to score a single point, with a best result of 12th in Monaco.
The fact that de Vries was fired was reported by Allard Caiff, a former racing driver and now a commentator on Viaplay, insisting that Helmut Marko was simply losing his temper. At the same time, De Telegraaf, the largest daily newspaper in the Netherlands, published the news that Daniel Ricciardo would replace de Vries in Hungary.
Today the Australian with 232 Grand Prix experience piloted the Red Bull RB19 during the Pirelli tire test at Silverstone and apparently successfully showed that he hadn’t forgotten how to drive fast. Whether this was the overriding argument influencing Red Bull’s management, or whether the 17-18th place De Vries took in the last three races was the last straw is not yet clear, as official comments from neither Red Bull nor AlphaTauri , not yet from the riders themselves.
It is worth recalling that it was in the Toro Rosso, as the team from Faenza was called at the time, that Daniel spent his first two seasons in Formula 1 in 2012-2013.
Source: F1 News
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