The 35-year-old’s contract with the Woking outfit was terminated one yr sooner than deliberate, resulting in him returning to the Pink Bull fold as a reserve driver in 2023 – earlier than he was then drafted in to switch Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri halfway by means of the season.
Now, off the again of one other powerful run, Ricciardo’s time in System 1 seems to be over in the meanwhile at the least, along with his seat at RB being given to Liam Lawson for the rest of 2024.
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Given the challenges that the previous few years have posed, Ricciardo was requested throughout a post-race chat with Sky Sports activities F1 in Singapore if he had any regrets about leaving Pink Bull again in 2018.
“I can definitely look again on it and say, ‘okay’… I feel on the time clearly in my head every part made sense, however was it the perfect determination of my profession? In fact you would argue, ‘no it wasn’t’.”
