Team principal Christian Horner was with Red Bull as Formula 1 preseason testing started Wednesday whilst he faces an ongoing investigation by the staff’s father or mother firm into an alleged declare of misconduct.
Horner was alongside the staff’s chief know-how officer, automotive designer Adrian Newey, as Max Verstappen drove the staff’s new automotive at the beginning of Wednesday’s morning session. It is the beginning of the Dutch driver’s marketing campaign for a fourth consecutive world title.
The Red Bull father or mother firm mentioned on Feb. 5 it was investigating allegations of misconduct towards a staff worker. Horner denies any wrongdoing and has continued in his function as staff principal through the investigation.
On the observe, Red Bull nonetheless had the quickest automotive in Wednesday’s first session. Max Verstappen set the tempo with a time that was 0.699 seconds sooner than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, and in addition overtook his rival on observe close to the tip of the session.
Williams was the one staff with apparent reliability points as Alex Albon’s automotive stopped on the observe with a technical fault.
There are three days of preseason testing from Wednesday by way of Friday forward of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix at the identical venue subsequent week.
Each day is cut up into two classes, and groups can solely have one driver on observe in every. That meant Lewis Hamilton, who’s leaving Mercedes at the tip of the yr to hitch Ferrari, was sitting out the primary day as his teammate George Russell drove.
McLaren driver Lando Norris mentioned he would put on a helmet with the design utilized by 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran, who died in December. De Ferran was McLaren’s sporting director when Norris first raced in F1 in 2019 and had extra just lately been an adviser to the staff.
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“We lost someone really special to us at the end of last year, he was a dear friend of mine and he’d been with me pretty much since I came into Formula 1. Someone who I not only had many laughs and great times with, but someone who helped me out on and off the track whenever I needed it,” Norris posted on social media. “This is the design he won the Indy 500 with, and I’ll be wearing it today as my little way to say thank you for everything and to let him know we’re thinking of him and he’s still very much part of McLaren. I hope you like it. This one is for you Gil.”
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