Ricciardo, who is injured and missing from this weekend’s F1 Qatar Grand Prix, will retain his AlphaTauri drive next season alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda, at the expense of his impressive deputy 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson.

Ricciardo was himself a mid-season replacement for the misfiring Nyck de Vries but his experience was the key trait that kept him ahead of Lawson in the pecking orderಌ.

“We had lots of discussions about the future of the team,” AlphaTauri CEO Pet🍬er Bayer said. 

“Our sha🃏reholders said: ‘We want you to continue and educate youn🔯g drivers, but we also want you to be successful’.

“Ultimately you can’t have both. You can’t have two ‘young driv🔥ers’ in the team.

“We were looking at: what do we need to deliver that pu🐼rpose? 🔥;

“We finally came t൲o the conclusion that, first of all, we only hav𒊎e two seats. Daniel is offering a lot of expertise, especially when it comes down to the set-up of the car, which is something that we were struggling with.

“Yuki, ov🐻er the years has grown, and is now coming to the pinnacle of his performance curve. And so we thought that those two make the right team. 

“It’s also good to have somebody like Liam just behind them to keep the fire warm under their seats and to෴﷽ make sure that we progress as a team.”

Tsunod✤a finished 11th in the s💟print race at the Qatar Grand Prix, but Lawson retired after just two corners after an error.

Ricciardo plans to return to racing in Austin later this month after a wrist inju൲ry.

“He was in the simulator on Monday,” Bayer revealജed. 

“He said that he could go almost until the end, but it 😼was not 100 percent.

“And we didn’t want to rush things.”