Red Bull confirmed last night that during this weekend’s US Grand Prix Daniel Ricciardo will be missing part of his beard.

‘Dan used up his season’s allocation of five razors,’ explained a team insider. ‘All our data told us the final one was about to fail and we had to ask him to stop shaving immediately, even though he’d only done his chin.’

The Australian driver will now take a penalty, that penalty being to spend the rest of the weekend walking around looking like a cheery Amish man doing a bad impression of Wolverine.