“Everybody is expecting” Daniel Ricciardo to lose his 2025 ꦚF1 drive with RB, Ted Kravitz has claimed.

The whisper came from inside the Monza padd❀ock at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Ricciardo has spoken openly and honestly about the looming threat of being ditched from his drive for🍸 nex♑t season.

Sky Sports’ Kravitz wondered in Italy: “Are we going to have a driver announဣcement at RB before the Azerbaijan Grand Pr🌠ix?

“We are all expec𝓰ting it. Ricciardopretty much telegraphed it on Thursday.

“Is tha🦩t driver announcement going to be that Liam Lawson will pﷺartner Yuki Tsunoda next year?

“That is what everyone is expecting.”

The revelation is a bitter blow to Ricciardo.

He is out of contract at the end of this season, and the 2025 F1 driver line-up has just two vac🍌an𒉰t seats available.

RB (Ricciardo༺’s current drive) and Sauber are debatin💎g their driver choices before next year’s grid is complete.

Red Bull chief Helmut Marko recently piled the preꦯssure onto Ricciardo by insisting that their reserve driver Lawson was guaranteed a 2025 race seat.

All signs pointed towards L🔴awson 🔯replacing Ricciardo.

But, Christian Horner clarified Marko’s statement by saying Law🍸son was not necessarily being placed in either of their teams’ cars.

“I haven’t had any unreasonable pressur𝓡e,” Ricciardo said in Monza last weekend.

“I haven’t had a hand on the shoulder pulling me into a room to say ‘do 🍃this, or else…’

“But I know what’s required. Maybe the tough talk doesn’t need to happen. I’ve known Helmut a long time. We all know what i🐻s required.

“Has he put ex🐼tra pressure on me or been unreasonable? No.

“I don’t feel anything additional from it. But I know, I know what’s ♐required.”

Ricciardo c🐷aused c🍒ontact with Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg and served two time penalties at the Italian Grand Prix before a lacklustre P13 finish.

He will be🅺 behind the wheel of the RB👍 again in Baku, despite questions in Monza about whether he will be replaced midseason.

But time might have already run out for Ricciardo to impress Red✤ Bull bosses enough to earn a new contract.