RedBull has been "moulding and making" their drivers it seems.
Can we really say they have the best drivers? or do they have the best drivers because of their training tools?
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner would suggest that in Ricciardo’s time away from Red Bull, involving stints with Renault and McLaren, he had picked up habits which made him a driver which they did not recognise from their past time together.
“It was clear when he came back, that he picked up some habits that were not… that we didn’t recognise as the Daniel that had left us two or three years earlier,” Horner claimed.
Ricciardo has since spoken positively about the experience of getting back into the Red Bull simulator, feeling it correlate well to him as a driver, and so Hill said this situation and Perez’s show that Red Bull do more than just give drivers a cockpit and send them out onto the track, instead they actually train them as drivers too.
“They also said the similar thing about Daniel Ricciardo coming back to them,” Hill noted, “they put him in the sim and they looked at the way he’s driving and they were saying he’s picked up lots of bad habits, ‘we don’t know where he’s been, but they’ve ruined him’.
“And now they’re reteaching him, retrain the driver. So at Red Bull, they don’t just provide you with the car, they actually teach you to drive as well.”
