Civil struggle has damaged out in Red Bull’s B-team only a race into the brand new F1 season.
While Max Verstappen was streaking to a dominant victory for the primary workforce in Bahrain, the RB (previously AlphaTauri) drivers, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda, had been squabbling on and off the monitor. The row emanated from a workforce order for Tsunoda to let the Aussie via.
While the Japanese obliged, he wasn’t proud of the order and made his emotions clear with a wild stunt on the slowdown lap after the chequered flag, which was missed by the primary TV feed earlier than later rising on social media. Tsunoda shot previous his stablemate, solely to lock up going into a decent right-hander.
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After Ricciardo cruised previous once more, Tsunoda pulled up proper alongside the sister automobile, nearly triggering a crash. The radio transmission of the post-race trade has additionally been launched.
After his engineer instructed him, “Chequered flag, P14”, Tsunoda petulantly replied, “Yeah, whatever”. After being shocked by his team-mate’s weird manoeuvre, Ricciardo then got here on the radio, saying, “What the f*** is wrong? Sorry, I’ll save it, he’s a f***ing helmet”.
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Tsunoda defined after the race that he had anticipated to be let again via as Ricciardo, who completed thirteenth, didn’t transfer additional up the order. Addressing the incident later, Ricciardo accused Tsunoda, now in his fourth season with the workforce, of immaturity.
“I don’t know. I came on the radio and was trying to stay cool. A bit of immaturity? I’m being very sensible right now, but let’s call it immaturity,” stated the previous Renault and McLaren driver.
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“[Yuki’s] obviously frustrated with the team orders call, but let’s be real, this is something we talk about before the race. It was very likely I was going to use the soft at the end of the race, so he knew that there was a chance that I would have a pace advantage at the end, and if he gets a call, it’s going to happen.
“He’s also not giving me points, we’re fighting for 13th, so at least give us the best chance to get at least one car in the points.”