Alpine team principal, Otmar Szafnauer, will only have an idea of what his line-up might look like this season after the situation with Oscar Piastri is settled in court. Piastri won the Formula 3 and Formula 2 titles as part of the Renault turned Alpine academy in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and he has taken
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Alpine F1 team principal Otmar Szafnauer is ‘confident’ that next week’s meeting with the FIA’s contract recognition board will come to the decision that Oscar Piastri is contractually bound to race for Alpine next season, rather than the McLaren F1 Team. The FIA’s contract recognition board will ultimately decide if Alpine’s reserve driver will race for
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Daniel Ricciardo’s options in Formula 1 are quickly running out, with more drivers now being rumoured to be competing with him for the vacant Alpine seat. The Australian announced prior to the Belgian Grand Prix that as expected, he will be leaving the McLaren F1 Team at the end of the year, opening the door for Alpine
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Despite failing to make the top 10 cut during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo will start on the fourth row of the grid due to a plethora of grid penalties. The Australian driver came within a tenth of making it into Q3 but was beaten late on by an incredible lap by
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Daniel Ricciardo still has ambitions to race at the front in the coming years in a competitive car, and his dismissal by McLaren has not deterred him from that. The 33-year-old signed from Renault at the end of the 2020 season as he tried to climb to the top of the midfield pack, and he
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Daniel Ricciardo is willing to take a one-year sabbatical to wait for the right opportunity to come along on the Formula 1 grid. Ricciardo is currently without a seat for the 2023 campaign following McLaren’s decision to drop him a year before the expiration of his contract with the team. While he’s likely to have
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has affirmed that there are no hard feelings between himself and Daniel Ricciardo amid the Australian’s separation from the team. Ricciardo signed for Renault in 2019 from Red Bull having initially not seen enough from McLaren to suggest that they were the better fit for him. Ironically, McLaren surpassed Renault
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Sebastian Vettel feels McLaren are to blame for Daniel Ricciardo’s struggles with the team, saying they’ve failed to get the best out of him. There was a huge amount of excitement when Ricciardo joined McLaren at the start of the 2021 campaign, but he’s failed to live up to expectations. For the vast majority of
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McLaren’s Lando Norris has affirmed that he needs to focus on his own career, so cannot spend any time feeling sorry for team-mate Daniel Ricciardo. After some disappointing results for the Australian since the start of last year, the eight-time champions have decided to part ways at the end of this season. Ricciardo had previously
MoreZak Brown has revealed that McLaren and Daniel Ricciardo discussed the possibility of the Aussie moving to their IndyCar team. The British team have officially announced that Ricciardo will be leaving at the end of the season, a year before his contract is supposed to expire. While they say it was a mutual decision, it’s
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