Daniel Ricciardo will not receive the help of team-mate Sebastian Vettel this season as team principal Christian Horner has ruled out the use of team orders.
Ricciardo remains Mercedes’ closest title rival with just 50 points between him and Lewis Hamilton and a further 22 behind championship leader Nico Rosberg. Therefore challenging for the title seems unlikely, but is far from impossible.
The Australian has also consistently finished ahead of Vettel and currently has a 60 point advantage over his German counterpart.
That’s not enough for Red Bull to throw their full support behind one driver though according to Horner.
“I think that we let the drivers race,” he said. “We trust them that they race hard and wheel-to-wheel extremely fairly.
“The points difference between Daniel and the two Mercedes is enormous so it doesn’t make sense for us to interfere with the two driver’s racing.
“It’s down to what they do on track and that’s how they raced [at Monza].”
