168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo is “clearly having some sort of crisis” amid a difficult and underwhelming start to the 2024 F1 season, it has been claimed.

That is the view of respected F1 journalist Mark Hughes, who believes som𝕴ething is “fundamentally wrong” with Ricciardo, having made a worrying comparison to his nigh🌠tmare stint at McLaren.

Ricciardo entered the season targeting168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sergio Perez’s Red 🔯Bull seat for 2025😼 but his own future is under scrutiny after a torrid start to the campaign.

The 34-year-old has been out-performed by RB teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda across the opening three races, prompting comme𝓡nts from Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko about the need for Ricciardo to raise his game.

At the Australian Grand Prix, Ricciardo failed to make it out of Q1 a🐷nd could only finish 12th, while Tsunoda claimed valuable points for RB in seventh (fol⛦lowing Fernando Alonso’s penalty).

Speaking on The Race F1 Podc𓃲ast, Hughes said: “Fa📖r from is he on a trajectory still to be in the Red Bull, I’d say is he on a trajectory to still be in the RB?”

When asked what Tsunoda is doing right that Ricciardo isn’t, Hughes said: “Helmut Marko has questioned his [Yuki Tsunoda’s] race speed, he’s fallen out of🌳 the points the first couple of raceꦕs but that could just as easily be a car trait.

“The 𓆉trouble is, how you benchmark him when the other driver is c﷽learly having some sort of crisis.

“That’s not a Red Bull-era Daniel Ricciardo performance, ﷽that’s much more like his troubled McLaren time.

“When you’re whole tenths off, nearly half a second off there’s something fundamentally wrong, so you ꦿcan’t really measure where Tsunoda’s at.

“It could be that he’🌃s operating at a very, very high level but until we see him alongside a Verstappen or a Leclerc or someone like that, it’s ver🌊y difficult to quantify it.”

Ricciardo has reportedly been given a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:two-race ultimatum to save his seat at RB by Marko.