Two Red Bulls collide at a race early in the season.
It is the long-serving Australian against the new wunderkid plucked from the junior driver carrousel – one who has the potential to go to the very top and re-write the record books on a regular basis.
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After the collision, the Australian is left feeling a little put out by the way he was treated and how he felt the team galvanised around the kid from northern Europe across the garage.
Relations would never quite be the same in the team as the latest cab of the Helmut Marko rank became ‘the one’ leaving the more established driver as an outsider.
Now, this could be describing Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel’s 2010 Turkish Grand Prix collision for which Vettel was largely deemed at fault, but Webber received criticism from Marko.
But today, April 29th marks the sixth anniversary of a collision in Azerbaijan between Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, one that would eventually led to the former’s exit at the end of the 2018 season.
