Daniel Ricciardo “will call” if he wants Haas move, says Guenther Steiner, who also provides Mick Schumacher update
The final year of Ricciardo’s contract with McLaren has been terminated so he will leave at the end of a disappointing 2022 and is now considering how to remain in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 driver line-up with only a few spots available.
Haas have a vacant seat due to their unwillingness to commit to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mick Schumacher beyond ꦉthe end of his contract, which expires at the end of this season.
"In his situation, Daniel first has to decide for himself what he꧂ does,” Haas team principal Steiner told RTL.
“It makes little sense to persuadeꦐ him to do somethi♈ng, he has to decide for himself.
“If he feels like it, he will certainly call, 🌃otherwise he will probably say, ‘I'll do a sabbatical or something else’."
Haas, Alpine, Williams and Alfa Romeo have the only current vacant seats for the F1 2023 season.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo delivered an update on his future to the Fitzy ♔and Wippa radio s𒁃how in Australia: “When I say I don’t know, I don’t have a contract yet for next year.
“Could it still happen? It could. I guess I’m not getti💖ng too caught up in next year. Ofꦗ course I want to race, I want to be on the grid, I want to be competing.
“But I’🌸m not kind of seeing🌳 next year as all or nothing. Obviously 2024 is something I want to be aware of and look at.
“So that’s kind of where I’m like, if it mಞeans taking a step back to then take two steps forward, then that’s what we’re trying to figure out at t🍒he moment, me and my team. So that could be a year off.”
Ricciardo explained that a one-year sabbatical would be to enable h✅im to “get back on the grid for 2024”.
What next for Mick Schumacher?
The son of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Schumacher was criticised earlier this season by Steiner for crashing too often and has a “50-50” chance of staying with Haas next year, his bos♎s says.
Steiner told RTL he will not put a time limit on making a decision: "You put yourself under pressure and we don't need that, we only play against ourselves. We don't really have any time pressure, all the others have the time pressure, but we don't, that's an advantage we don't take away from ourselves."&n♊bsp;
Steiner admitted Nico Hulkenberg was an option: "A man 🔥like Nico brings experience.
"What🥂 can a driver do to make the team better and bring us to th🎉e top?
"How much risk do you want to take? With a young driver, yo𒅌u usually take more risks because you don't know how far he can go.
"You can't calculate that mathematically."
James was a sports journalist at꧟ Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
