Despite a heated rivalry for the championship, Lando Norris claims Max Verstappen to be his closest aid among non-colleagues.

Helmut Marko has revealed that Red Bull held ‘serious discussions’ with Lando Norris over a move to sister team AlphaTauri (now rebranded as VCARB) for the 2019 campaign before McLaren intervened and promoted him into an F1 seat from their driver academy.

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Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko revealed that McLaren driver Lando Norris would have been a part of the Red Bull family by securing a seat with junior team

Lando Norris gave his championship hopes a boost by taking pole position for the Italian Grand Prix. The McLaren driver trails standings leader Max Verstappen by 70 points after his win last week in Zandvoort but the Dutchman could only qualify a relatively lowly seventh here at Monza.

Red Bull Racing, Formula 1's current reigning championship team, narrowly missed out on signing two of the sport's top talents. Helmut Marko, a consultant within Red Bull's driver development program,

Verstappen will travel to Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on his worst run of the ground effect era. The Dutchman has recorded just two podiums in his last six starts as Red Bull continue to slip down the pecking order.