Max Verstappen-Daniel Ricciardo Partnership Can Become Red Bull’s Driving Force

Perhaps the biggest compliment you could pay Max Verstappen is that, for two-thirds of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, he made the best driver in Formula One look average. Over the opening four races of the 2016 season, Daniel Ricciardo had established himself as the outstanding performer on the grid, recapturing the understated speed and consistent class of his breakthrough year in 2014. As he told MotorSport.com's Pablo Elizalde during winter testing, he entered his third season as a Red Bull driver reluctant to get his "hopes up with anything," but the sheer level of his performances had returned the belief, the momentum and the magic to a team recovering from its first winless campaign in seven years. Fourth in Australia wa...

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