Ricciardo announced his shock exit midway throug♐h the 2018 season, 🙈joining Renault for the subsequent two years.

At the time, Red Bull had what was widely-regarded as the strongest driver pairing on the grid in Ricciardo and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen.

However, after the pair’s crash at the 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Ricc🌳iardo felt the team were slowly starting to back Verstappen.

Ricciardo was also di🉐sgruntled by the fact Verstappe𝔉n was handed a bumper new deal earlier in the year.

Ultimately, th🐈e move to Renault - and then McLaren - didn’t work out as Ricciardo could only pick up a solitary win and a couple of podiums, before returning to the Red Bull stable with AlphaTauri.

Horner confirmed that Ricciardo quickly realised “he made a mist♉ake” by leaving.

“I think he recognised that he made a mistake. He had no good advice around him a𒁃t the po🔯int that he left us,” Horner said on Dax Shepard's Eff Won podcast. 

“Having spent a few years outside of the family he suddenly realised🍰 that, 'Whoa, actually what I had was really good'. Actually it was during the pandemic, I remember he called me and he said, '🍷Christian, I hate to say this to you, but you were absolutely right, and I apologise' and so on.'"

Hor🌌ner🌳 believes Ricciardo was “very badly advised” during that part of his career.

“There was an element of [spite] at the time, thinki🎐ng, 'You know what? Okay. Go and suck on the lemon for a bit',”Horner said.🌼 “He was very badly advised in his earlier career. Everybody f***s up at some point.

“We gave Max a ♍contract at the beginning of that𝓰 year in 2018 to secure his future. Daniel, I remember being upset at the time. He suddenly felt that, 'Hang on, I don't want to be the support act here'.

“I could tell he was starting to think of being a bigge♑r fish in a smaller pond. He got a lot of noise in his ear that this is the Max show. Money (from Renault) was also on the table.”