With a week to go until Christmas, here is all the F1 news you may have missed on Monday, December 18.
From Christian Horner’s moment of clarity to a young driver joining Max Verstappen’s former teams, there was still plenty of news even deep into the off-season.
Juan Pablo Montoya encounter gives Christian Horner view of Red Bull future
Christian Horner may be one of the best team principals going but before he took his place on the pit wall, he tried desperately to become a driver.
Unfortunately for him, his life preservation instinct was just a little bit too high.
“I had this very vivid moment where I was running in Formula 3000, now the Formula 2 equivalent, and Juan Pablo Montoya [was there].
“We were at Estoril before the season, and there was a long straight. It’s an old-school track, and it had two very fast right-hand corners with a barrier that was about 20 metres from the track.
“It was a sixth gear corner so we’re talking 160/170 miles an hour. I’m coming out of the pit lane that filters onto the track and Montoya comes haring past, he commits to this right-hand turn and I can just see the car moving and dancing around and the rim is trying to pop through the sidewall of the tyre and he’s on opposite lock.
“And he’s got his right foot absolutely planted. I just knew at that point, ‘I can’t do that. I cannot.’
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