Ricciardo is without a drive for next season after McLaren decided to end his contract prematurely in order to sign Alpine junior Oscar Piastri.

This leaves Ricciardo’s options limited with Alpine, Haas or 🌊Williams his only realistic options.

Alpine are expected to sign Pierre Gasly, while it’s unlikely Ricciardo wi🔯ll want to drop down to either to a team competing at the back of th♛e grid.

Ahead of yesterday’s Dutch Grand Prix, a cꦦl𓄧ip surfaced of Ricciardo talking to Red Bull driver Sergio Perez.

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While the context of the discussion isn’t entirely clear, Ricciardo is clearly heard saying to Perez: “Take 🐟a year off and come back inꦺ 2024”.

At the Belgian Grand Prix, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结𒆙๊果历史:Ricciardo stated that he would consider taking a year off from F1 if 🐷he couldn’t find a competitive driv🀅e for 2023.

Ricciardo struggles again at Zandvoort

Ricciardo’s disappointing season continued at the Dutch GP, finishing a lowly 17th after being k꧅nocked out in Q1.

In 🔯stark contras🐲t to high-flying McLaren teammate Lando Norris, who qualified and finished inside the top eight.

Reflecting on the weekend, he said: “I feel like there’s been a lot of bad ones, so if I say it’s the worst — I didn’t think it could get worse. It’s weird as well because I think back to FP1 and I rꩲemember the first few laps of the session to me was like, all right, that’s p1. I was like, all right. 

“Even if not everyone’s set a time, I thought it was trending to be a much better weekend. That’s where it’s a weird one. I know qualifying got away from us through the last corner, but it ꦑfelt like we were looking like a much better car or in a better place at the first practice session. 

“So yeah. Tough to say, ꦛbut certainly not a good weekend.”