From being indicated as the main candidate to replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull to being confirmed at Racing Bulls, thanks to the unexpected decision of the Milton Keynes team to continue with the Mexican. The career of Daniel Ricciardo seemed to be close to a new turning point after the Belgian GP, before the summer break, due to Perez’s future being increasingly questioned. Instead, after the surprising announcement by Red Bull, the Australian will continue in the junior team of the Anglo-Austrian manufacturer with Yuki Tsunoda as his teammate, as in the first part of this world championship.
A season that started with some difficulties for Ricciardo, to the point that some doubts had also arisen about the continuation of his experience with the Faenza team. However, in an interview with racingnews365.comthe former Red Bull and McLaren driver took stock of his career, even more so after his recent plans to Helmut Marko of wanting to reconvert RB’s role as a team dedicated to Red Bull’s young talents, as it was in its origins.
In this way, as Christian Horner declared, the doors of F1 could open for promising Red Bull talents such as Isack Hadjar, Arvin Lindblad, not to mention the constant presence behind the scenes of Liam Lawson: “I also know what it means to be a young man: a hungry boy who wants a chance to get into this sport. – declared the winner of 8 GPs – I’ve been there and it doesn’t seem like much time has passed. The day I feel like I’m occupying a place I can’t occupy, I won’t feel comfortable and I won’t want to be here anymore.. I don’t want to prevent someone from having their chance, I have too much respect for a path that I have also taken, but at this moment I don’t feel like I have reached the point where I have to step aside. The day I do, probably I will talk about it openly. I think I spoke a year ago as if this were my last chanceso that’s how I see it. I’ll give everything I have and the young people will have their chance and their space, but I don’t feel ready to give up my seat“.
For Ricciardo, the time has not yet come to hand over his seat to a younger driver due to his unconvincing results, but the Australian did not deny that, should that day come, he would be the first to step aside: “If my results suck and so on, that’s how it will be and it will happen, but personally I don’t feel at that point yet – he added – because I think I’m being too honest with myself, I think that I would feel uncomfortable occupying a place if I really didn’t feel my heart in that place anymore“.
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