Jun.14 (GMM) Daniel Ricciardo could not even make it to the tip of the 2024 season, in accordance with the newest System 1 hearsay.
The 34-year-old Australian headed to Montreal final week while Purple Bull F1 guide Dr Helmut Marko was declaring that Yuki Tsunoda has completed a significantly better job to date this yr.
Tsunoda was then re-signed for the junior crew RB for 2024, whereas Marko admitted that Liam Lawson and the opposite Purple Bull-backed juniors had been within the working to be the Japanese driver’s subsequent teammate.
Purple Bull Racing crew boss Christian Horner, in the meantime – as soon as eager to carry Ricciardo again to the senior crew to be Max Verstappen’s teammate – was declaring that the 8-time grand prix winner now must “work laborious to retain” even his RB seat.
On the similar time, 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve was busily and really publicly questioning Ricciardo’s place in F1, suggesting he has been surviving within the sport for the previous a number of years virtually purely on “picture”.
“Daniel Ricciardo had a great weekend,” Marko instructed Pace Week. “Who is aware of, perhaps he was spurred on a bit of by Jacques Villeneuve’s criticism.
The newest whispers counsel Purple Bull reserve Lawson might change Ricciardo after this season’s summer time break in simply 5 races’ time.
“Each Racing Bulls drivers had been on the ball in Canada,” Marko added, “and it should proceed like this.”
