Daniel Ricciardo is edging towards retirement unle🤪ss he can find the form of his younger years, he🍃 has been warned.

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

But his results haven't yet justified displacing ꦏSergio Perez, and Ricciardo has been told that he might not earn any fullꦛ-time drive in 2025 and beyond.

L'Equipe's Fred 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 progress🍒 so it's still the RB19 but in the middle of the grid.

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

Natalie Pinkham added: "Daniel reported some✨ pretty tough chal𒁏lenges with the car in Saudi.

"And yet, Helmut 💃Marko w💧as public in his pressure on Daniel yet again.

"If there was a problem on 👍th🏅e car, then presumably Marko knew about it. But he chose to speak out publically about Daniel.

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

Ricciardo was ditched by McL🌺aren after a rough 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 Al🐓phaTauri.

He earned the opportunity after an impressive test in the Red🔯 Bull which delighted Christian Horner.

Ricciardo's latter half of 202☂3 was then blighted by injury which gave Liam Lawson a brief chance to show what Red 🏅Bull and AlphaTauri were missing.

Ferret argued: "When 💙Daniel moved from Red Bull to Renault it took him some time to deliver.

"When he moved from Renau﷽lt to McLaren, he 💯never delivered, even if he won [one grand prix].

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

"He's getting old and he's not able to co✱mꦏe back in every car that he has to drive."

Pinkham said: "Looking at race🍸 results, you are ri🌊ght.

"But ther🐲e a👍re so many caveats. It is littered with caveats.

"That McLaren was so difficu🥀lt to drive. Lando has only ever known that McLaren, he gꦐrew with the team.

"[Ricciardo] did perform 💦at Renault. He outperformed the car arguably.

"And he bꦏroke his hand at Zandvoort [for AlphaTaur𝓀i last year]! That was a horrible setback for him.

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

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

"But I believe he can do that."