Daniel Ricciardo is edging towards retirement unless he can find the form of his younger years, he h♛as been warned.

The veteran RB driver entered the ♓2024 F1 season hoping to proജve his worth, and earn a step up into the Red Bull next year.

But his results haven't yet justified displacing Sergio Perez, and Ricciardo has been told that he might nꦅot earn any full-time drive inಌ 2025 and beyond.

L'Equipe's Fr𒆙ed Ferret, speaking before the F1 Australian Grand Prix, told the podcast about Ricciardo's other options: "Retirement. If he is still in this way 🔜of driving, from the [first] two races, I would say yes.

"We thought the new [RB] should🍌 have been the car to be beaten🌳, because it's a copy of the RB19.

"But the others made huge progres🐻s so it's still the RB19 but in the middl🍸e of the grid.

"Yuki Tsunoda is performing 🍌better. If Daniel doesn't perform better, it's going to be tough for him."

Natalie Pinkham added: "Daniel reporteཧd some pretty tough challenges with the car in Saudi.

"And yet, Helmut Markꦕo was public in his pressure on Daniel yet again.

"If there was a problem on the car, then presumably Marko knew ab✱out it. But he chose to speak out publically about Daniel.

"He has the experience to bounce back from this."

Ricciardo was ditched by McLaren after a r🐻ough 2022 where he trailed Lando Norris and found himself without a full-time race seat last year.

But he was drafted in midway through to inject some experience into Red Bull's sister team AlphꦜaTauri.

He earned the opportunity after an impressive test in the Red Bull which dꦍelight🏅ed Christian Horner.

Ricciardo's latter half of 2023 was then blighted by injury which gave Liam Lawson a brief chance to show what Red Bull and AlphaTauri were missin꧂g.

Ferret argued: "When Daniel moved from Red Bull 🍸to Renau🔯lt it took him some time to deliver.

"When he moved from Renault to McLaren, h𒉰e never delivered🌳, even if he won [one grand prix].

"When ✅he moved from McLaren to [RB] he isn't as impressive as 🧔he was.

"He's getting old and he's not a💧ble꧑ to come back in every car that he has to drive."

Pinkham said: "Looking at race resultꦉs, you are right.

"But there are so many caveats. It is litter𝓰ed with caveats.

"That McLaren was so diffi🅘cult to drive. Lando has only ever known that McLaren, he grew with th♎e team.

"[Ricciardo] did perform at R🐠enault. He outperformed the car arguably.

"And he broke his hand at Zandvoort [for AlphaTau🅠ri last year]! That was a horrible setback for h💎im.

"And actually it looked as if he was going to do s𝓀omething in that car, towards the latter half of the season.

"I'm a fan, a supporter, of his. But I recognise that you've g🦹ot to put the work in, and get the results. It's a ♌results driven game.

"But I believe he can do that."