Oscar Piastri’s situation with the Alpine F1 Team looks set to reach an end, with the FIA’s contract recognition board having started its hearing on Monday regarding the Australian’s status as either an Alpine driver or a McLaren driver. The situation arose after Piastri refused to drive for Alpine in 2023, to replace Fernando Alonso, despite the team deeming
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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo has no ill will towards Oscar Piastri or his manager Mark Webber amid the 21-year-old’s imminent move to the British team. Ricciardo left Renault to join McLaren at the end of the 2020 season, but his partnership with Lando Norris has been a tough one blighted by an incompatibility with the car.
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Daniel Ricciardo’s chances of remaining on the Formula 1 grid in 2023 have taken another hit, as a potentially vacant seat has already had its possible successor announced. The much-loved Australian is searching for a drive for next season, after himself and the McLaren F1 Team announced prior to the Belgian Grand Prix that they
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Amid uncertainty around his future, the really important thing for Daniel Ricciardo to remember is not to panic. He cannot throw himself into another team with whom he has no idea if things will work out, or if his motives align with theirs. Little did anyone have a clue at the time, that his move
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Jean-Eric Vergne, Daniel Ricciardo’s former team-mate, says he doesn’t know what has happened to the Aussie. Ricciardo has struggled enormously since joining McLaren at the start of the 2021 campaign, rarely able to get anywhere near team-mate Lando Norris. He’s been so disappointing in fact that the British team have elected to end his contract
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It was yet another disastrous Grand Prix for Daniel Ricciardo, with his McLaren exit not coming soon enough for one of the paddock’s most popular drivers. Ricciardo qualified P11 for the Belgian Grand Prix, but actually started seventh due to a number of drivers being awarded grid penalties. This put the Honey Badger in a
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Former Formula 1 driver, Martin Brundle, believes that Daniel Riccirdo’s departure from Red Bull in 2018 was a poor choice. The Australian had won seven races with the Austrian side, but was being out-performed by Max Verstappen, and it was clear that the Dutchman was the driver Red Bull wanted to prioritise going forward. The
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Alpine are reportedly prepared to let Oscar Piastri leave for McLaren, and they are said to have identified AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly as a strong possibility to partner Esteban Ocon next year. At the start of August, Piastri denied Alpine’s announcement that he has been promoted to the race seat in place of Fernando Alonso, who
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Lando Norris endured a miserable Belgian Grand Prix, after being stuck in a DRS train led by Williams Racing’s Alex Albon. Norris started the race from P17 following a grid penalty for a new power unit, and eventually crossed the line in P12 at Spa-Francorchamps. The Brit was clearly struggling during the race, after switching
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Haas team principal Guenther Steiner is keeping his options wide open as he continues to decide who should race alongside Kevin Magnussen in 2023. Magnussen re-signed with the American side at the start of this year having initially been released at the end of 2020. The Dane replaced Nikita Mazepin, who himself was dropped ahead
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