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# Podcast: F1 teams’ driver market and development headaches
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/podcast-f1-teams-driver-market-and-development-headaches/
- Published: 2022-06-06T07:19:44.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T14:27:45.000Z
- Description: The Race F1 Podcast tackles the surprising situation Red Bull’s driver programme finds itself in, Daniel Ricciardo’s struggles and the cost cap row
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #image-bottom-right

The top teams’ 2023 Formula 1 line-ups are all set now Sergio Perez has secured a new Red Bull deal, but it’s also created complications.

Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson explain why Perez isn’t the driver Red Bull would have intended to have in that seat, what his long stay means for the firm’s F1 junior programme, and what should be read into Jos Verstappen’s suggestion Red Bull should’ve done more to make sure his son Max – not Perez – won the Monaco Grand Prix.

Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren future is the other big driver market topic right now, despite the fact he already has a 2023 contract.

We discuss the McLaren car characteristics he’s still struggling with, what’s undone the progress he made in 2021, and what might happen next.

The teams’ development war and the implications of the impasse over a potential cost cap increase are also debated, plus Mick Schumacher’s costly crash habit at Haas.

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