Daniel Ricciardo ‘in pain’ and cuts ‘sad figure’ at F1 Australian GP, says Ted Kravitz
The eight-time grand prix winner lost his place on the F1 grid this year after a🌼greeing to part company with McLaren following two f♏rustrating seasons.
But Ricciardo is back in the F1 paddock at his home race in Melbourne this weekend as he makes his first official appearance in his new role as Red Bull’s re🍌serve driver.
Speaking on his ‘Ted’s Notebook’ show after qualifying, Sky Sports pitlane reporter Kra🐲vitz suggested Ricciardo is “starting to feel the pain of not being an F1 driver”.
“The first race Danny Ric has been at an🎉d he’s cut a bit of a sad figure I want to sayꩲ,” Kravitz said.
"He's been on the pit wall, the Red Bull pit wall and I 🃏think he's starting to feel the pain of n🐓ot being a Formula 1 driver. The first race he has been to as not a Formula 1 driver for a long time. And I get a sense he is starting to feel it a little bit.
"I saw Danny Ric on the Red Bull pit wall watching the sessions and he lo🉐oked to be in pain,🐻 he looked to be hating it.
“I thought ‘you don’t want to be there Danny Ric. Y🔯ou don’t want to be watching everybody going aജround doing what you used to love or still love doing.
"It's not a good place, ꦬdon’t do it, don’t be on the pit wall’. I think it’s much better for Danny Ric to be in with the engineers where he has been all the other times.”
Having bumped into Ricciardo in the paddock during the show, Kravitz told the 33-year-old Australian: “Just a ti𝓡p, I’m not sure you look good on tha🅷t pit wall.”
To which, Ricciardo replied: “I look good 🐼in these colours though. I can do it for a year, it's all good. It's not forever.”
Ricciardo’s options of sealing a competitive seat for 2024 appear limited, but Haas boss Guenther Steiner has 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:left the door open to welcoming the Australܫian back into F1 on a full-time basis.
"It's a bit early to speak about a driver change already for next year so let's see what we ꧑are doing with these drivers,” Steiner said o♍n Friday.
“For sure, at some point, maybe I'll🗹 speak with him, but I cannot promise anything because if our two guys do a good job, I think [that's] where I stand with it."
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