Daniel Ricciardo sheds light on brutal scrap to replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardoܫ responds to speculation that he could be thrust into the Red Bull during summer

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo has opened up about the “relentless” pressure of fearing for his own F1 seat - and battling to claim 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez’s.
The scrutiny on Red Bull driver Perez has ramped up, despite h☂im being rewarded earlier this year with a new contract, after ♋a series of drab performances.
This weekend’s F1 Hungarian Grand P📖rix is the final chance for RB’s Ricciardo to put himself in the𒀰 shop window and tempt Red Bull to make a midseason driver change during the summer break.
Ricciardo😼 was quizzed about taking advantage of Perez’s woes at the Hungaroring, where wuqian0821.com are in the paddock, and he said: “It depends how we are spotlighted in the media, but the truth is every driver is under pressure.
“Even the ones that are killing it, you know, th🃏ere is then pressure for them to keep performing. So my point is;𝔍 we all feel it.
“Obvi🍰ously I've been in the spotlight a bit this year, Checo's in the spotlight.
“Even after my good race in Montreal, I said ‘I need 💟to do another good one because you're only as good as your last race’. One good weekend doe🃏sn't quite let you off the hook. It temporarily does, but then it can quickly change.
“Yes, of course, I know 🔜I've seen some sta𓆉tistics. Max [Verstappen] has scored a lot more points than Checo.
“And of course, yes, they are expecting a bit more. This is the sport, it's what we'🌊re in. We feel it꧂ all the time.
“It's just who is the spotlight of the 🐬week. Yeah, it's up to us to try toﷺ shut it out and it's not easy.
“Sometimes if everyone is just always asking you questions about ‘you have this, you have that’... it feels sometimes ve♊ry negative or can sometimes feel heavy.
“But in my ex♋perience, and I put Checo here as well because he's also been in Formula 1 a similar amount of time, we have dealt with it enough that I think you learn just to focus on the engineering, focus on the car set up. The rest you hear it, but you just have to just roll with it.”
Ricciardo on difficulty of "relentless" rumours
Should Red Bull opt to replace Perez, their likeliest midseason options would come from inside their programme which includes the RB tea💧m.
Reserve driver Liam La🍰wson could be in the mix, alongside RB drivers Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda.
Ricciardo was asked whether it would be ‘strange’ if a driver outside of the Red Bull family was thrust into F1’s most ꦆcoveted car.
“I don't know,” he said. “I guess the stran🎃ger depends, you know, who the stranger is🃏.
“I'm not a junior anymore, 🌃but I know how it works, so it's always resuꦐlt driven.
“If we are doing good❀ enough, then we put ourselves in the best seat, in terms of if there is some movement, then we hold the power in our results.
“There's so many🍬 things happening in F1, but at the end of the day, it's in our control what we do ♏behind the wheel and what the stopwatch says.
“So try to control the cont🅠rollables🎃. And I think in that situation, quite a lot is in our hands.”
Ricciardo entered this season as the red-hot favourite to replace Perez in💖 2025.
But, hi🀅s poor form and a series of podium finishes for Perez caused Red Bull🐎 to hand the Mexican a new deal.
But sin♛ce then, Perez has experienced a downturn in performances while Ricciardo has shot back into the spotlight over the past four rounds.
Ho🍨wever, he admits it can be difficult being questioned about losing your job.
“It can f𝕴eel relentless, and obviously I experienced it a bit at♉ McLaren,” he said.
“Those media sessions, they're not e🌸xactly enjoyable. So, you'd be lying if you said ‘oh, it doesn't bother me𝕴’
“You have to accept that and try to then just deal with it. So, it's part of it. I always try to be the bigger person in terms of ‘it's what I signed up for, I'm trying to be the best in the world at somet꧃hing and at times I'll probably fall short and this is now what's going to come with it’.
“You make your own bed and you just have to be okay laying in it sometimes if the s෴heets 🌃aren't made.”

James was a spoℱrts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to foot🍸ball, to F1.