Formula 1: Daniel Ricciardo might be the most sizzling driver in the market assuming he loses his seat at McLaren for the 2023 season to Oscar Piastri and Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has recently conceded that the Silver Arrows ‘consistently had an eye’ on the former Red Bull driver. Ricciardo has an agreement with McLaren through to the 2023 season, however, reports have arisen for this present week that they’re in works about buying out his last year. Follow Formula 1 updates on InsideSport.IN
“We always had an eye on Daniel … we really like him in here. It’s just the mentality in Mercedes – I sometimes feel if you’re happy in your relationship it is not always easy (to change),” Wolff said.
“It is like being married, you need to be 100 percent behind it. It was not a lack of interest, it was just that we were in a happy relationship and there was no need to flirt with another woman at that stage,” Wolff added.
Alpine have ruined their arrangements to replace Fernando Alonso with Piastri, who emerged with his very own astounding assertion demanding he wouldn’t be driving for the French group from the 2023 season. It presently seems like Piastri will be driving close by Lando Norris one year from now, leaving Ricciardo without a seat for the 2023 season.
The most straightforward move for the Australian would probably be to sit down at Alpine. The group he drove for only a long time back when they were known as Renault. The supervisory crew at Alpine has totally changed from those days, meaning it may not be completely impossible.
Be that as it may, there would likewise be the choice for Ricciardo to take a year out from the sport and return for the 2024 season where a greater market would possibly be accessible to him. A couple of drivers have been signed past the 2023 season and the greatest seat possibly opening up would be Lewis Hamilton’s at Mercedes.
What’s more, Wolff has recently conceded, toward the beginning of the 2019 season, that Mercedes were once viewing at Ricciardo as a choice to drive close by Hamilton.
Meanwhile, Hamilton signed a two-year deal with the Silver Arrows last year with many foreseeing it will be his last contract in F1. He’s recently demonstrated that he will not recreate any semblance of Kimi Raikkonen and Alonso in driving in F1 into his 40s.
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