2020- Russia- Dan topped Q2 and qualified in P5. He finished the race in the same space. During the race Dan was given a 5sec time penalty for track limits. When informed of the penalty he took ownership over his mistake and merely stated he would drive faster. He finished 10 secs ahead of Charles and kept his P5 finish.
#we keep saying he’s the silver boy#but fact is#he is as golden as the other two golden boys#it’s just that his shine is a bit dull and tarnished:(((
why would you do this to me?????? :((((((((((((
The day I watched Christian Horner almost pushing Sebastian - his first golden son - almost out of the way, not even stopping to give a cursory congratulations on his second place, to pick Daniel up and look at him with such wonder and disbelief, was the day I knew he was nothing less as golden and gilded as the other two sons who did win world championships.
I know people always talk about Baku being the impetus behind Daniel leaving Red Bull, but for me Monaco was truly the turning point.
Daniel standing on the steps of the Red Bull energy station in Monte Carlo as Helmut Marko essentially told him Red Bull would never win a championship with him and Daniel realising he had to leave. He probably knew he had nowhere else to go, but he also knew he couldn’t stay back. And yet for Christian, Daniel winning Monaco probably made him think Daniel wouldn’t leave now. Look what they’d done with an ailing car! Think of what they could do together with a better car!
Which is why almost three years later, as Daniel was struggling in that McLaren, as he was about to be lapped by his much younger teammate at a track where he had experienced the highest of highs, Christian Horner would clasp him on the shoulder and lean close just to tell him, ‘I’ve watched some of that race recently.’ And Daniel, with the weight of all the wasted years pressing down on him, with him thinking if it couldn’t be me, I’m glad it’s him - because at one point in time, no one could have argued against the certainty that it could be him - would just smile and nod. And maybe for a brief moment there, he had the fleeting thought, ‘can I come back home?’