Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has tipped Alpine to sign outgoing McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo to replace Aston Martin bound Fernando Alonso, with the Brit certain the Aussie could be “rebuilt”. Ricciardo has faced a disastrous couple of seasons with the Woking-based team; excluding his magical 2021 Italian Grand Prix victory, there has been nothing to
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McLaren have endured a very mixed 2022 season, where they’ve had to deal with legal issues off the circuit which have somewhat affected their on-track performance. The Woking-based team’s 2022 challenger is not capable of fighting with the frontrunning teams, unlike in recent seasons; however, it is capable of battling Alpine for an all-important fourth place
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McLaren technical director, James Key, has conceded that he did not think the 2022 cars would evolve as quickly as they have done. The new technical regulations this year are the biggest change Formula 1 has seen in 40 years, and the reintroduction of ground effect aerodynamics was bound to throw the cat amongst the
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Kevin Magnussen has enjoyed a solid comeback season in Formula 1 with Haas, following his one-year hiatus spent in the IMSA. The Danish driver was, of course, re-signed by the American team very close to the start of the 2022 season, due to the departure of Nikita Mazepin. Magnussen has done well to not only get
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Lando Norris has been without a doubt the star performer at McLaren since he was joined by Daniel Ricciardo in 2021, with the 22-year-old having consistently beaten the former Red Bull driver. Norris has made the Australian look like a fool in 2022, with the British driver currently seventh in the Drivers’ Championship on 88 points. Ricciardo,
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Daniel Ricciardo is certainly in a race against time to find a seat for 2023, with the much-loved Australian rapidly running out of options. 2022 has been disastrous for the 33-year-old at McLaren, with the Honey Badger having been comfortably second best to Lando Norris once again. Bar his victory at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, the
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Daniel Ricciardo’s days in Formula 1 appear to be numbered, with the outgoing McLaren driver still searching for a 2023 seat. His options are thinning by the second, with Nyck de Vries’ impressive debut at the Italian Grand Prix having put the Dutchman on Alpine’s, AlphaTauri’s and Williams’ radars. It’s being increasingly reported that should
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Daniel Ricciardo came agonisingly close to one of his best results of the season at the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, the venue where, of course, he claimed a famous victory last year. The Australian was forced into retirement from seventh place on Lap 47/53, with a suspected oil leak the cause. The outgoing McLaren
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Daniel Ricciardo has been hailed for having the “winning recipe” by American actor and comedian Will Arnett, whilst talking on his F1 podcast Fast & Loose. The Aussie faced an unfortunate end to the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, after retiring with just a handful of laps remaining. Whilst running in seventh, in what would’ve
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo believes that Max Verstappen’s championship journey started in 2018, when he matured and came back from a tough start to the year. The Dutchman had contested just one season of single seaters in Formula 3 in 2014 before making his Formula 1 debut with Toro Rosso a year later. Then 17 going
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