Ted Kravitz: Christian Horner’s praise of Alex Albon was ‘interesting’ - could he return to Red Bull F1 fold?
Albon was dropped by Red Bull having endured a difficult 2020 campaign alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, with the British-born Thai eventually being replaced by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez.
After a year on the sidelines as Red Bull’s reserve, Albon secured a f𒐪ull-time return to the F1 grid with Williams, where he has been in impressive form.
A superb drive to seventh in last weekend’s Canadian G𒁏rand Prix ca🍌ught the eye of former Red Bull team boss Horner, who admitted to Sky F1 that he “watched as much of his race as our race.”
Albon finished one place behind the recovering Pere♚z, who suffered a third disappointing weekend on the bounce as he slipped further behind Ve🦩rstappen in the championship.
Asked whe🥃ther Perez deserves to stay at Red Bull, Kravitz told the Sky Sports F1 Podcast: "Yes. Although Christian Horner was quick to praise Alex Albon wasn't he. I thought that was interesting.
"A🌳lex Albon has now severed all of his ties with Red♎ Bull, he doesn't even have it on the side of his helmet anymore.
"He still has the links with the Yoovidhya family, who are 51 per cent owners of Red Bull. There is a couple oඣf sponsors that he has which are linked to the Yoovidhya family and ꦐtheir other brands that they have in Thailand.
"But Alex is not in the Red Bull camp 🍌anymore and Alex Albon finishing seventh in a Williams, even though it was 20 seconds behind, although yes Perez made an extra pit stop, but still behind Perez in a Red Bull in sixth, that wasn't lost on anybody including Hor🐎ner.”
If anyone was going to replace Perez, Kravitz reckons current Red Bull reserve 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo would be the “obvious” candidate.
"Are the🍷y really going to get Albon back?” Kravitz continued.
"Ricciardo is the obvious one if you're not ready to promote Liam Lawson, who's next in the Red Bull staircase of talent, and they don't think Yuki Tsunoda or Nyck de Vries are quite right for Red Bull Racing, which Helmut Mark and Christian Horneꩲr have pretty much made ﷽clear, then give Ricciardo a go.”
Ricciardo has admitted he is dreaming of a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🐎“fairytale” 𒈔F1 comeback with Red Bull.
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