{"id":16331,"date":"2025-07-22T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16331\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:56:08","slug":"ex-red-bull-engineer-launches-brutal-social-media-dig-to-danica-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16331\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex Red Bull engineer launches brutal social media dig to Danica Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Hinsey, former Red Bull engineer, shared some rather unkind words about Danica Patrick\u2014the well-known former American driver who is now better known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> pundit on Sky Sports\u2014via a social media post that was later deleted.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/nico-rosberg-criticises-danica-patricks-easy-take-on-the-montreal-circuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patrick recently found herself in the spotlight again following a strange verbal exchange with Nico Rosberg in Canada<\/a>, where Rosberg took issue with her after she claimed that the Montreal circuit wasn\u2019t a particularly challenging track.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Wisconsin native appears to have made a new &#8220;enemy,&#8221; this time online.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/c-1-687fe4525e96a.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto\" alt=\"Danica Patrick\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Danica Patrick at Sky Sports<\/p>\n<p>Ex Red Bull engineer critical Danica Patrick<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;(When) Danica Patrick is on the broadcast you immediately turn it off, because you have standards,&#8221; he wrote on his X account.<\/p>\n<p>He then continued: \u201cI know I\u2019m an engineer and I consume things differently than a lot of people, but I think there are some common threads between me wanting to enjoy a race I\u2019m not working and my dad, who likes turning on a race now and then, but he won\u2019t come back because it\u2019s so far up it\u2019s own ass and nuanced to get that interested&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, the former engineer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/red-bull-racing\" title=\"Red Bull Racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull Racing<\/a> concluded, saying: \u201cFor the dude that\u2019s watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> and can\u2019t get into endurance racing. I get it\u2026 but if they\u2019d explain more of this stuff and how it works, more people would buy in.&#8221;Hinsey worked as performance Engineer for VerstappenDuring his time at Red Bull Racing, Hinsey worked closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>. He served as Trackside Performance Engineer for the Dutch driver in 2016 and 2017, and before that, in 2015 and early 2016, he held the same role for Daniil Kvyat.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Hinsey spent two years as a Simulator Performance Engineer, followed by another two years as a Senior Simulator Performance Engineer at Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>He then left the team after the 2021 season. Currently, he works as a race engineer in IMSA for Wayne Taylor Racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Hinsey, former Red Bull engineer, shared some rather unkind words about Danica Patrick\u2014the well-known former American driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-16331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}