Daniel Ricciardo sheds light on brutal scrap to replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull
Daniel Ri🐟cciardo responds to speculation that he could be 🍰thrust into the Red Bull during summer

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo has opened up about the “relentless” pressure of fearing for his own F1 seat - and battling to claim 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s.
The scrutiny on Red Bull driver Perez has ra🃏mped up, despite him being rewarded earlier this year with a new contract,🅺 after a series of drab performances.
This weekend’s F1 Hungariꦜan Grand Prix is the final chance for RB’s Ricciardo to put hims♛elf in the shop window and tempt Red Bull to make a midseason driver change during the summer break.
Ricciardo was quizzed about taking advantage of Perez’s woes at the Hungaroring, where mahbx.com are in the paddock, ꧅and he said: “It depends how we are spotlighted i𝐆n the media, but the truth is every driver is under pressure.
“Even the ones that are killing it, you know, there is then pressure ♋for them to keep performing. So my point is; we all feel it.
“Obvi🗹ously I've been in the spotlight a bit this year, Checo's in the spotlight.
“Even after my good race in Montreal, I said ‘I need to do another good one because you're only as good as your last race’. One good weekend doesn't quite let you oꦫff the hook. It temporarily does, but then it can quickly change.
“Yes, of cours♎e, I know I'🔥ve seen some statistics. Max [Verstappen] has scored a lot more points than Checo.
“And of course, yes, they are expecting a bit more.♛ T🍨his is the sport, it's what we're in. We feel it all the time.
“It's just who is t𓆉he ꦇspotlight of the week. Yeah, it's up to us to try to shut it out and it's not easy.
“Sometimes if everyone is just always asking you questions about ‘you have this, you have that’... it feels somet🐻imes ver⭕y negative or can sometimes feel heavy.
“But in my experience, and I put Checo here as well because he's also been in Formula 1 a similar amount of time, we have dealt with it enough that I think you learn just toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ focus on the engineering, focus on the car se🦩t up. The rest you hear it, but you just have to just roll with it.”
Ricciardo on difficulty of "relentless" rumours
Should Red Bull opt to replace Perez, their likeliest midseason options would come from insid♋e their programme which includes the RB team.
Reserve driver Liam La💦wson could be in the mix, alongside RB drivers Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda.
Ricciardo was asked whether it would be ‘strange’ if a driver outside of the Red B💎ull family was thrust into F1’ꦛs most coveted car.
“I don't know,” he said. “I guess the stranger depends, you k♋now, who the stranger is.
“I'm not a juꦗnior anymore, but I know how it works, so it's always result driven.
“If we are doing good enough, then we put ou🅰rselves in the best seat, in terms of if💎 there is some movement, then we hold the power in our results.
“There's so many things happening in F1, but at the end of the day, it's in our control what we do behind the wꩵheel and what th🌄e stopwatch says.
“🃏So try to control the controllables. And I think in that situation, quite a lot is💯 in our hands.”
Ric🧸ciardo entered this season as the red-hot favourite to replace Perez in 2025.
But, his poor fo♑rm and a series of podium finishes for Perez caused R🐻ed Bull to hand the Mexican a new deal.
But since ꦕthen, Perez has experienced a downturn in performances while Ricciardo 🐟has shot back into the spotlight over the past four rounds.
However, he admits it can be diff✅icult being questioned🌳 about losing your job.
“It can fee𓃲l relentless, and obviously I experienced it a bit ♓at McLaren,” he said.
“Tho♓se media sessions, they're not exactly enjoyable. So, you'd be lying if you said ‘oh, it doeꦛsn't bother me’
“You have to accept that and try to then just deal with it. So, it's pꦰart of it. I always try to be the bigger person in terms of ‘it's what I signed up for, I'm trying to be the best in the world at something and at times I'll probably fall short and 🌺this is now what's going to come with it’.
“You make your own bed and you just have to be okay laying in it sometimes if the sheets aren'🅷t made.”

James was a sports journalist at S💙ky Sporℱts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.