Red Bull owning two F1 teams receives fresh criticism after “weird” fastest lap drama

"I think that the issue there is that in a sport like Formula 1, no owner shouꦡld have two teams."

Red Bull and RB on track at Silverstone
Red Bull and RB on track at Silverstone

Ex-Haas F1 boss Guenther Steiner doesn’t think Red Bull should be allowed to own two teams after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo’s fastest lꦑap attempt at the end of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ricciardo pipped 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris to the fastest lap at the Ma﷽rina Bay Street Ci♐rcuit.

Norris would have taken another point out of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen🔜’s championship lead, but it was Red Bu﷽ll’s sister team, VCARB, which stopped Norris from taking the fastest lap.

Norris’ failure to se✅cure the fastest lap in Singapore now means Ver༺stappen can finish second in every race (and sprint) to secure this year’s world title.

Unsurprisingly, VCARB’s actions resulted in critic🌞ism from McLaren CEO Zak Brown, once again questioning the fact Red Bull own two teamꦡs.

Giving hi🎉s view on the situation, Steiner described it as a “little bit weird”.

“This fastest lap, it was♛ a little bit weird when it came you know,” Steiner said on the Red Flags podcast. “I think that the issue there is that in a sport like Formula 1, no owner should have two teams.

“You never get away from the suspicion thღat there is team orders between teams, not in one team, between teams. ওI guess we have to respect what Red Bull did at the time, because I was involved in it when they bought Minardi, Mr. Mateschitz.

“F1 was struggling. Minardi was struggling. They would have g๊one away without a saviour. So F1 has developed a lot since them days, and for the future, maybe there needs to be a fix to this one that nobody can own two teams.”

Steiner feels that it should be a💃 serious talking point in the coming years.

“But I think it shouldn’t be as radical as saying, ‘Oh, in the next Concorde Agreement or commercial agre💯ement, this needs♈ to be sorted’. No,” he added.

“What Red Bull put into F1 to make it𒅌 what it is now, it’s quite amazing, so in the end, you cannot tell them what to do with their teams. But in the future, there needs to be thoughts about that. How can we avoid this?

“Because if Visa Cash App wasn’t owned by the same owner 🐻as R🐟ed Bull, nobody would have had the suspicion. Everybody would have said it’s the last hooray from Daniel Ricciardo.

“If, for example, the𝐆 Sauber would have made the fastest lap, would anybody be worried about it? No.

“So ꦦthe problem lies, in that one, that it’s owned by the same owners.”

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