The month of August 2022 was very hot not only in terms of air temperatures, but also for the climate that was experienced in the pilots market. After the ‘Piastri case’, which ended definitively with the official status of the Australian driver in McLarenthe promotion of the former third Alpine guide automatically canceled any hopes of pursuing his career in Woking a Daniel Ricciardo. Moreover, the future of the 33-year-old from Perth is still unclear.
Of all the teams that have yet to establish their driver pairs for 2023, none seem to include Ricciardo as one of its major candidates: in addition to Williams and Haas, Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri also seem to be aimed at different profiles. In this way, for the Australian the more concrete options seem to be two: the role of third guide or even a gap year from the top flight, as recently hypothesized by the same number 3.
If the risk of not seeing Ricciardo on the starting grid in 2023 materializes, this circumstance would generate a certain sense of sadness in various fans, conquered by the sympathy and smile always present on the face of the winner of 8 career GPs. A personality also appreciated by his former teammate in Red Bull as Max Verstappen. The reigning champion hopes to see him again on the track, while admitting that the current market conditions do not seem to be entirely favorable to this hypothesis: “Daniel found himself in a situation where the car wasn’t right for him – admitted the Dutchman – and there hasn’t been a real improvement in feeling comfortable in the car. Then, talking at length with the team, I think it has reached the point where the two realities were better off separating. Sometimes that’s the way it goes. In any case it’s great to have him in F1. He’s a great guy, first of all, and I get along very well with him. I hope he finds a place, but now it’s up to him and I don’t know where he wants to go or if there is room for him“.
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