Mercedes deployed a temporary driver pairing of Lewis Hamilton and Nyck de Vries in practice on Friday, looking to fulfil their young driver requirement for the year, giving the AlphaTauri bound Dutchman a final run out in the W13. Hamilton was the fastest man on track out of the Pirelli tyre test runners in FP2
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Following the news that Lewis Hamilton is set to extend his current contract at Mercedes beyond 2023, it is looking increasingly more challenging for Daniel Ricciardo to return to the sport in 2024. Ricciardo revealed recently that he is probably going to take a sabbatical in 2023, with it becoming ever more likely that he’ll
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Oscar Piastri’s 2023 switch from Alpine to McLaren is perhaps one of the most highly anticipated in years, given how highly the young Australian is regarded in the paddock. The current Alpine reserve driver is part of a very exclusive club, of drivers who claimed the Formula 3 and Formula 2 World Championships in back-to-back seasons. Piastri claimed
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Mika Hakkinen is a Formula 1 legend, winning two world titles in 1998 and 1999, however after coming so close to a third title in 2000, the Finn decided to take a year out of the sport at the end of 2001, eventually choosing to retire in July 2002. Daniel Ricciardo looks set to also
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Lewis Hamilton has well and truly silenced anybody who thought he’d retire at the end of the season, as the seven-time World Champion has revealed to the press that he “wants to keep racing”. Following what has been a challenging year for Hamilton and the Silver Arrows, some questioned if the 37-year-old would see this
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McLaren driver and star of Netflix’s ‘Drive to Survive’ Daniel Ricciardo will be without a race seat in 2023, however, he says that he only needs to look around him to reassure himself that he will be back in the future. The current F1 grid has a variety of drivers older than Ricciardo that still
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Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Daniel Ricciardo, finishing 16th in his favourite race on the calendar this weekend. The Australian was eliminated in Q1 before spending most of the race in the company of the backmarkers, such as Nicholas Latifi. “Honestly, it’s been just so far off the pace that I
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It looks increasingly likely that Daniel Ricciardo will not be on the grid for 2023. The Australian has seen his McLaren team opt to put youngster Oscar Piastri in his seat for next season, following two underwhelming years paired up with Lando Norris. Over the past couple of days it has emerged that the 33-year-old
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Just when it looked like things couldn’t get much worse for Daniel Ricciardo, they did, as the Australian languished round at the back of the field throughout the United States Grand Prix. The upbeat and bubbly Ricciardo that was seen on Thursday morning was long gone by the end of the race at the Circuit
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Daniel Ricciardo is probably more excited about a year on the side-lines than ever before, after what was a horrendous United States Grand Prix for the driver who loves the Circuit of the Americas. Thursday saw the Australian in his usual fine-form, as the 33-year-old rode a horse into the paddock, with the animal having
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