'Daniel called me and he said 'Christian, I hate to say this but you were absolutely right.''
Christian Horner has revealed Red Bull were willing to almost double Daniel Ricciardo’s salary in an effort to stop him moving to Renault in 2019.
The then 29-year-old decided to leave Red Bull but for a moment it appeared as if he was certain to say. “‘No problem. I’ll speak to him.’ So he took him upstairs after the race in Austria and they were gone for well over an hour and then they re-emerged, they reappeared both with smiles on their faces.
Ricciardo was then spooked when his engine, made by Renault, exploded in Germany and Horner said the Australian then wanted to cut his new deal from two years to one, which Red Bull also agreed to.
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