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[Wouter]

The last few days there was a rumor that Günter Steiner wanted to buy the second RB team.
According to the respected Japanese outlet AS-Web, Steiner has set his sights on the Visa Cash App RB team.
Rumors had previously circulated about a possible sale of Red Bull's sister team.
According to the Japanese medium, Steiner has already found possible investors.

There's a big interview with Helmut Marko in the "Kleine Zeitung" today.

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/sport/moto ... -lawson-im
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KZ: There have recently been rumors in Japan about a sale of the second Red Bull team...

HM: I really don't understand where these things keep coming from.
Everything has been clarified and fixed with the shareholders. [The RB team will not be sold]

[CaribouBread]

Marko more or less confirmed Lawson will be a free agent in 25 unless RB decides to provide him a seat.

[FW17]

Daniel is back, it was the chassis all along. Yuki has just got his ass handed to him.

[hudnut]

I reserve judgement on the chassis magically solving Dan's issues. Yuki might not have liked the conditions or had a bad day.

[Big Gun]

Early days, but he knew something was wrong with his chassis, I expext him to show the real diference vs Yuki. Most of all the experts said Ricciardo was finished?

[ispano6]

This was the expected result, as Yuki hasn't gotten to grips yet with this circuit, a circuit that Daniel Ricciardo has raced (8 times) and won at. So no huge surprise there. There's no way Yuki is going to get up to speed in a single FP1 to the more experienced drivers who know the track. Though, it looks like it won't matter as they don't look to be in points contention with Sauber looking as strong as they do.

Perhaps now Daniel has the better chassis and it'll be Yuki's turn to give it a try next time

[Wouter]

This was the expected result, as Yuki hasn't gotten to grips yet with this circuit, a circuit that Daniel Ricciardo has raced (8 times) and won at. So no huge surprise there. There's no way Yuki is going to get up to speed in a single FP1 to the more experienced drivers who know the track. Though, it looks like it won't matter as they don't look to be in points contention with Sauber looking as strong as they do.

Perhaps now Daniel has the better chassis and it'll be Yuki's turn to give it a try next time

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Did Yuki drove with a low(er) DF wing because he expects a dry sprintrace tomorrow he said?

[Wouter]

You have to click on the feed to watch the video.

[runningmanz]

What was Sainz doing getting in the way of Dan's qualli lap??

[ispano6]

Did Yuki drove with a low(er) DF wing because he expects a dry sprintrace tomorrow he said?

Not sure if that is the case, this is his first time at the circuit, and he also said he didn't put it together.
It's not the end of the world. He has the older chassis now, and if the team share Ricciardo's set-up with Yuki's side of the garage, maybe it'll dial it in more for how the car should be set up, assuming they are like-for-like.

You'd have to place in 8th to score 1point, and this track isn't suited for the VCARB anyway so the sprint race is going to be a tall order. The focus will have to be qualifying and race pace/management.

[runningmanz]

That was more like the Danny Ric of old. Getting his elbows out and sending it!

[PierreW]

Did Ric change his chassis this week end?

[Bill]

Daniel is back, it was the chassis all along. Yuki has just got his ass handed to him.

Daniel has zero points why can't he just focus on his jop and not drag yuki into silly nonsense .his drs is not working again so how is he to to set a competitive time in quali .the desperation to make daniel look good is making team to strange things

[Wouter]

Daniel is back, it was the chassis all along. Yuki has just got his ass handed to him.

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I doubt if it was the chassis. What I now for sure is that Yuki's DRS didn't always work in the Sprint
and in the first round of qualification.

[bigblue]

Team report for sprint / quali is here. Bit of a mystery from Yuki's side, some improvements in set-up for quali, but not much pace.