I doubt this very much. The teams move on very quickly between drivers and everyone will be focussed on the coming season. They certainly wouldn't rush through an upgrade as a "f*** you!" to a previous driver, no matter how many big egos there are in the team.Maplesoup wrote: ↑13 Mar 2019, 09:17
Maybe this is also a little bit of a chance to give a "screw you" too Riccardo. If they win his home race there are going to be a lot of questions for him about the choice that he made to move to Renault.
I would doubt that a team would actually push forward development just for that reason, but I would also imagine some ego's are a bit sore about him leaving for their ex-engine supplier.
One thing they will want to do is be much quicker than Renault, as a team, and preferably they will want to be higher up the grid than they were with the Renault engine. That's the corporate "f*** you" that the egos would be looking for - but then only because it helps their championship aspirations.