{"id":4762,"date":"2018-06-06T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:24:43","slug":"daniel-ricciardo-is-max-verstappens-best-teacher-says-horner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/06\/06\/daniel-ricciardo-is-max-verstappens-best-teacher-says-horner\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ricciardo Is Max Verstappen&#8217;s Best Teacher Says Horner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the season, many people were expecting a battle in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/02\/13\/red-bulls-2018-mayhem-verstappen-or-ricciardo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Red Bull<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s garage for supremacy between <strong>Max Verstappen<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Ricciardo<\/strong>. A lot of fans and pundits gave the advantage to the Dutchman in that contest. But as things stand right now, Ricciardo is ahead and it&#8217;s not even close.<\/p>\n<h1>Daniel Ricciardo Is Max Verstappen&#8217;s Best Teacher Says Christian Horner<\/h1>\n<p>Verstappen has been error-prone since the first race. It is fair to say that Ricciardo has always been on top in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Horner<\/strong>, Red Bull Racing Team Principal, said that the Australian is a &#8220;very good teacher&#8221; for Verstappen. During his current woes, car number 33 has been involved in some kind of incident in every weekend so far.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Max<em> has an abundance of talent and had some harsh lessons this year. I think a modified approach will benefit him. The Monaco weekend (when <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/05\/26\/monacogp-max-verstappen-crashes-in-fp3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>he crashed during FP3<\/strong><\/a> and had to start last as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2018\/05\/26\/monacogp-max-verstappen-crashes-in-fp3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Ricciardo won the race from Pole<\/strong><\/a>) was very painful for him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Verstappen is in his fourth season in F1, his third season with Red Bull and has scored 35 points in 2018, whilst Ricciardo has 72 points. Ricciardo leads him 4-3 in wins since Verstappen was promoted to Red Bull. Also, the Australian leads 19-12 in podiums, and 2-0 in Pole Positions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>2018 championship resumes this weekend with the Formula 1 Grand Prix Heineken Du Canada 2018 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAIN PHOTO:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a id=\"oNPXRPszQ-tztz0uRkUEcw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.in\/detail\/962384848\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'oNPXRPszQ-tztz0uRkUEcw',sig:'JmU1DNvvBtiY7s4dGsS_A6IWpUmX1n8vK95mW96Dc8Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'962384848',caption: true ,tld:'in',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the season, many people were expecting a battle in Red Bull&#8216;s garage for supremacy between Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo. A lot of fans and pundits gave the advantage to the Dutchman in that contest. But as things stand right now, Ricciardo is ahead and it&#8217;s not even close. Daniel Ricciardo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2449,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[424,681,77,68,79,78],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-2018-formula-one-season","tag-christian-horner","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-max-verstappen","tag-red-bull-racing"],"modified_by":"Sudha Sundar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}