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I don't think the level of hate towards Daniel would reach the level of calling him Nepo baby. Just because a Christian likes him, f1tiktok is really pathetic.

The Daniel who had to wait tables at 17 to raise money for him to go to Europe? The Daniel whose parents managed to raise just enough funds to send him to Europe for a year and he knew he had to do everything to get spotted by Red Bull if he ever wanted to continue racing? The Daniel who didn’t get paid in his first year racing in F1 because Red Bull somehow had to get back their investment? The Daniel who got braces only after he got his first pay check in F1? That Daniel they’re calling a nepo baby??

They also forget even Christian who apparently likes Daniel so much, was unwilling to pay Daniel the same amount of money as a much younger less experienced Verstappen in 2018 until Dietrich Mateschitz put that offer on the table …

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Daniel recently

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According to this post http://xhslink.com/v39qEH, Daniel was already in the sim last weekend, I guess he just left London, Meikes said the team would meet up in Farnza before Miami.

That makes a lot of sense with the new upgrades coming up in Miami. I believe they’re the first in-season upgrades this year. Hopefully it addresses the front limitation Daniel’s been experiencing and it gives them some much needed straight line speed!!

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https://x.com/yukitauri/status/1783695123026513928?s=46&t=4uvR9bJ_cC8K4wWbdclEGg is this acc true or something else?

I found the same quotes last week:

I don’t know from which website OP found theirs, but the version I read clearly didn’t include the part about “I was going to make a joke but I’ll stop because it’ll become a headline.” From the way Daniel’s name is written in OP’s screenshots, I’m assuming it’s a translated article and I cannot tell if it’s a mistranslation or not. It’s quite presumptuous of them to think he was going to say something xenophobic when Daniel has never xenophobic AT ALL towards Yuki. If he did say what he did, I’m sure it’s because he knew anything would be taken out of context as it, of course, happened

Also, both Bayer and Mekies have said that Yuki has benefitted from Daniel’s work with the car. Daniel’s not just talking out of his ass or jealousy of Yuki’s success

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The teammate and backmarker car game is a powerful one in F1

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F1: Danny Ric from WAAAAAY downtown! 🏀

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couldn’t have said it better myself

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Daniel at Heathrow airport yesterday ✈️

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visacashapprb: getting in the zone for quali 😮‍💨

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What if he just retired lmaoooo

his contract is until 2025 and if he stays, his gardening leave is 1 year so he can’t join a team til 2027. That being said bbc is reporting he can possibly negotiate to leave now and join a team next season. Not sure how that would even work though…… esp with gardening leave bc even if he leaves right this second I’m sure it’ll apply

Noooo but I want Daniel to drive a Newey rocket ship!!! I want him to have to go on a cocaine diet so that he can fit into the car!!!! 😔😔😔😔

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the narrative narratived a little too hard this time

Daniel’s hero journey from hell - he’s doomed to never get the atonement he desperately seeks and will never get to return home …

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Imagine he pulls a reverse uno on everyone and goes to Alpine instead

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But they are talking about the airport in Bologna, and don't we already know that he was there to drive cars at Mugello?

For all we know he could be going to AM. They have money and Honda and Fernando re-signing so early on in the season???

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it's almost funny how not surprising this is, like of course when daniel gets back to rbr the car is shit again, silly of me to expect otherwise lmao

Early reports seem to suggest that Newey is leaving because he feels uncomfortable with how the Horner situation was handled and if true, huge respect to him! No one person should face such impunity and I’m glad they’re facing some kind of consequences.

Daniel possibly joining red bull to partner his four time world champion teammate only for red bull to once again experience a downturn in performance, especially with the rumours of engine unreliability in 2026? It’s really on us to have expected otherwise.

As Crofty said, if he didn’t have bad luck, he would have no luck at all …

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the newey departure doesn’t shock or worry me really. Obviously a huge win for Mercedes and a loss for RB, but CH has made it clear (and other sources as well since CH is well… delusional sometimes) that RB hasn’t relied heavily on him in a while and there’s more influential figures in their teams engineering now. I forgot his name but someone who’s said to be an even bigger player than Newey, Max’s team really wants to keep working with/retain.

Both Enrico Balbo and Pierre Waché have been credited heavily for the success of the RB19 and RB20.

I guess the true mark of a well-oiled corporation is its ability to ensure successful business continuity even after the departure of its most prolific figure. But it can’t be denied that Red Bull suffered massively when Adrian Newey stepped away from the F1 project in 2015-2017, so who knows?

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RIP Newey rocket ship for Daniel 😢

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I know who the trendsetter was 😏