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

"I think that the iss💯ue there is that in a sport like Formula 1, no owner should 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5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo’s fastest lap attempt🦩 at the end of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Ricciardo pipped 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris to the fastest lap at the Ma𒉰rina Bay Str⛄eet Circuit.

Norris would have taken another point out of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s championship lead, but it was Red Bull’s sister team, V🎐CARB, which stopped Norris from taking the fastest lap.

Norris’ failure to secure the fastes🙈t lap in Singapore now means Verstappen can finish second in every race (and sprint) to secure this year’s world title.

Unsurಞprisingly, VCARB’s actions resulted in criticism from McLaren CEO Zak Brown, once again question💝ing the fact Red Bull own two teams.

Giving his view on the situation, Steiner described it as a “little bit 𝓰weird”.

“This fastest lap, it was a litt﷽le bit weird when it came you know,” Stei♔ner 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 that there is team orders between teams, not in one team, between teams. I 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 s🌳truggling. They would have gone 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.”

Ste🐼iner feels that it sh𝓡ould be a serious talking point in the coming years.

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

“Wha𝕴t Red Bull put into F1 to make it what it is now, it’s quite amazing, sꦜo 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?

“Becausඣe if V🍌isa Cash App wasn’t owned by the same owner as Red Bull, nobody would have had the suspicion. Everybody would have said it’s the last hooray from Daniel Ricciardo.

“If, for example, the Sauber would have made the﷽ fa🦂stest lap, would anybody be worried about it? No.

“So the prob𝕴lem lies, in that one, that it’s owned by the same o𓃲wners.”

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