168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo’s crash at last year’s Dutch Grand Prix has been pinpointed as a “pivotal” moment that determined his F1 future.

Following the Singapore Grand Prix, it was confirmed that the eight-time grand prix winner has been replaced by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson at Red Bull’s junior team for the remainder of the 2024𒊎 F1 season.

Ricciardo returned to RB midway through last year with the aim of replacing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez at the senior team, but his co﷽meback was hampered just two races in when he broke his hand in a crash at Zandvoort.

The🌱 35-year-old Australian missed fi🐲ve races while he recovered from the injury, opening the door for Lawson to impress as he deputised in Ricciardo’s absence, scoring two points in Singapore with a brilliant drive to ninth.

Speaking on the Sky Sports F1 podcast, ex-grand prix driver turned pundit Anthony Davidson reckons Ricci🐷ardo’s incident and injury lay-off ultimately prove💜d key in how events have transpired.

“Any driver will kick themselves after any incident no matter how lightly you get away with it, but I think that moment ꧒was really pivotal to his future at th🌌e team and his existence in Formula 1 as a whole,” Davidson said of Ricciardo’s crash at Zandvoort last year.

“It allowed a young driver, hungry,༒ snapping at his heels, that chance to get behind the wheel. And like we’ve seenജ with [Franco] Colapinto, you give these young drivers a sniff of a chance in desperation, they deliver.

“Tha🅘t’s exactly what we’ve got with Liam Lawson. Since then, he’s probably been pestering Helmut Marko: ‘see the job I did, I can do better than that, put me back in the car♚, otherwise I’m off’.

“I think that last bit is crucial as well. I feel like if it wasn’t for Ricciardo moving aside now for Lawson,𓄧 I fear for their sake that they would have lost Lawson to another team. Maybe Audi, who knows. But he needed to go somewhere and I think Red Bull could sense that.

“It’s a brutal sp✨ort. Who’s the future? Is it Ricciardo, or is🙈 it Lawson? Well, unfortunately for Ricciardo, Lawson is younger than him. So it’s just a game of numbers.”

Lawson has six races alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda in what is effectivel💧y an audition for a full-time RB seat - and potential Red Bull drive - next year.