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Ricciardo says Marko has 'softened a bit'
Former Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has suggested that Dr Helmut Marko is not longer quite the same intimidating presence he was once and that the 77-year-old has softened somewhat in recent years. Marko is head of the Red Bull junior driver programme, which brought Ricciardo into Formula 1 with Toro Rosso in 2011 and oversaw his promotion to the senior team in 2014. During his time in charge Marko has earned a fearsome reputation as someone hard to please, and willing to cull anyone from the programme he feels isn't meeting the grade. That's included the likes of Jean-Eric Vergne, Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley. But Ricciardo - who left the Red Bull fold in 2019 for a two-year...
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