Daniel Ricciardo wants F1 return but “not at any cost” | Eyes set on “top team”
Ricciardo was dropped by McLaren for F1 2023 after two years of disappointing performances relative to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.
Unwilling to drop down the grid and join Haas🅘 or Williams, Ricciardo rejoined Red Bull as their third driver.
Ricciard♒o made his first ꦏpublic appearance of the season at last weekend’s Australian GP - his home event.
Speaking during the weekend in Melbourne,ไ Ricciardo explaine♛d the benefits of having a year away from F1.
“Once yo⛎u’re in the season, it’s relentless,” he said. “All you really have a c🧸hance to do is dissect the last race and [say] ‘okay, the set up was this and we’ll do that next time’. You don’t actually get a look at the big picture.
“Even like now I look back and even like the last two years at McLaren and I’m li🗹ke, ‘okay, yeah, I understand why that didn’t work,’ ‘I would have done that better or done that differently or cut these things out or added that’.
“So♓ I’m even in a position now, only a few months removed from last season, where if I get back on the grid next year I already have things that I want to do different and it’s quite cool. I wouldn’t have had that if I was still in the race car.”
Ricciardo ruled out returning to F1 “just to be on the g🍒rid” and “struggle in 18th place” suggesting he’d only return with a competit😼ive team.
“One thing I want to get out of this year is I want to know whaꦉt I want, but I also want to know what I don’t want,” he added. 𒈔“And I think I can already answer that.
“I don’t want to go back to ground zero. I ♛don’t want to just be on the grid [in order] to be on the grid and str🐽uggle in 18th place. So I don’t want to be on the grid at any cost.
“I know that it’s harder to just jump straight into a top team in terms of availabil🃏ity. But I know that’s where I want to be. I know I thrive in those situations when there is more on the line.
“I think at this point in my career to [have] that real hunger and motivation to race at the front, tha🅘t’s that’s all I really want. I know it probably makes it even a little harder to get to, but that’s where I’m looking.”
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