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Red Bull has ruled that its drivers Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo can continue to race freely, following their clash in Azerbaijan. The pair collided on lap 40 of the Baku race, with both racers retiring from the Grand Prix on the spot.
The stewards determined that both drivers were at fault for the collision, and no punishment was handed out. Despite not implementing team orders on this occasion, team principal Christian Horner says that cleaner racing is needed, and he will be forced to intervene if it happens again.
"That's not how Red Bull is - and that's why I like the team," said Horner to Sky F1 about team orders. "We will race but with a little more margin - so I guess with a few millimeters more margin!"
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko told Auto Bild: "We'll let them continue racing," "However, we will tell the race engineers in the future that they will have to intervene when we see that it could get out of hand."
Verstappen also spoke about the incident and says that he and Ricciardo quickly sorted things out: "We apologised," Verstappen insisted. "Daniel and I are good together, we have a lot of respect each other so we just try again.
"Daniel and I were OK. We looked at each other and said this is not good. But we immediately shook hands and agreed it cannot happen again. We have a lot of respect for each other and I think we like to race hard - that's how we both are. We will keep doing that, of course with a little more margin."
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"Free" to race, methinks. That will certainly be the case if this happens again.