Ricciardo’s sensational return with AlphaTauri was confirmed last week, replacing the underperforming 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries.

The Australian has already stated he’s eyeing up a return to Red Bull alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Ricciardo will have to pಌrove himself alongside Yuki Tsunoda following a turbulent two years at McLaren.

Speaking ahead of Friday practice during Sky ♔Sports♒’ F1 coverage, Patrick gave her view on how Perez would deal with Ricciardo’s return.

“I’m sure he [Perez] has been feeling the pressure all year, theജ pressure situation of being Max’s team-mate, but also his performance strugglinꦚg throughout the year and Max being so much faster and winning so many races. 

“I’m sure he’s been feeling the pressure, but things do have levels of getting more real, and so when the conversation is about someone t🎃aking your seat having been in that developmental fold, it’s going to add just another layer of it.

“Just like Daniel, Sergio puts on a pretty good face too. At the end of the day, when you jump in the car there’s only 🅘mode and t🦄hat is ‘go’. So you can rely on that as a driver that you go into those automatic driving modes.”

Marti♌n Brundle was pleased to see Ricciardo back on the F1 2023, but conceded it was “extremely harsh” on De Vries.

“Who doesn’t enjoy havꦍing Daniel’s smile and speed back on the grid? He’s such a character, he’s great for Formula 1 and I’m really pleased to see him back.

“I think it 𒅌was ex♛tremely harsh on Nyck de Vries. I think he deserved more time and a bigger chance, especially with no testing these days, to prove himself in the AlphaTauri.”