Christian Horner believes that Daniel Ricciardo had an important influence on the development of Max Verstappen when the Dutch driver switched to Red Bull Racing. Speaking about the Australian driver on the F1 Nation podcast, Horner recalled a funny episode when Daniel went to the Mercedes pits and started filming parts of the car that interested the Red Bull engineers.
Christian Horner: “I think Max actually learned a lot from him. When Max first joined the team, he was much younger, such a young puppy. And Daniel had a big influence on Max, showing that you don’t have to take everything in life too seriously, and how important it is to enjoy the moment.
Daniel loved what he did. He was very proud of being a Formula 1 driver. And Daniel did all kinds of stupid things.
One day he took a camera from a cameraman and took it to the Mercedes pits. It was unheard of! I’m surprised Toto Wolff didn’t throw him out as soon as he started removing their car’s brake lines and everything else we were interested in.
Riccardo is a good singer and a good musician. He was never shy about trying something new.”
Source: F1 News
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