The veteran driver will exit McLaren at the end of this season, a year earlier than his contract was due to expire, and is now in a fight to find a seat for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 F1 driver line-up.

Rumours link him with Alpine and Haaꦉs although he has admitted tꦓhat a sabbatical from F1 is possible.

He finished 15th at Spa then said: “It certainly hasn’t been the most fun weekend going𝓀 th💜rough all this, but at the same time it was nice to get back in the car and just try to put everything behind me and have a bit of fun. 

“When all the red lights were going on I was ཧsmiling and I was just happy to be in that moment ag🅷ain.

“There were certainly some parts of it I enjoyed. I’m glad that the bulk of this announcement is done, and hopefully it gets a bit more fun for the last eight♎.”

He added: “Pretty long and frustrating race. It just felt like we were waiting for a mistake. I said on the radio, ‘Obviously I’m trying, but unless they make a mistake in🦄 front, it’s literally impossible to pass’.

“The good thing about this ye🙈ar is you can race closer, but the bad thing is the tow effect is smaller, so actually on a tr𒐪ack like this I felt like it made overtaking more tricky.

“If we’d had a little bit of distance on him (Alex Alಞbon), the race probably could’ve been very different, but I think when his tyres were fresh, that Williams actually had good speed to use. He struggled more with deg, but early in the race he had pace. As I said, that first and third sector, if I didn’t have a tow from someone in front, I was a bit of a sitting duck.

“When Albon got me [I knew it was going to be a long afternoon]. He got ꦉme because I couldn’t pull enough of a gap in the second 🐷sector, and then when I saw he was still quite close I was like, ‘Damn’.”

Ricciardo said about McLaren’s potential ahead: “It’s for sure tricky. It’s tough. As we’ve seen, a big weekend can obviously make a big shift for sure, but we feel like we’re probably a few steps away from a big weekend. It’s going to be tough. I think we just need obviously small steps at a time. I feel like the last few weekends they’ve consistently been a quicker package. Tough task for now. For sure not impossible. But I💦 don’t want to say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to do it’, because I think right now they are a bit quicker.”