Daniel Ricciardo wants F1 return but “not at any cost” | Eyes set on “top team”
Ricciardo was dropped by McLaren for F1 2023 after two years of disappointing performances relative to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.
Unwil༒ling to drop down the grid and join Haas or Williams, Ricciardo rejoined Red Bull as their third driver.
Ricciardo made his first public appear🍸ance of the season at last weekend’s Australian GP - his home event.
Speaking durin๊g the weekend in Melbourne, Ricciardo explained the benefits of having a year away from F1.
“Once you’re in the season, it’s relentless,” he said. “All you really have a chance to do is dissect the last race and [say] ‘oka𝔉y, the set up was this and we’ll do that next time’. You don’t actually get a look at the big🅠 picture.
“Even like now I look back and even like the last two years at McLaren and I’m like🀅, ‘okay, yꦦeah, I understand why that didn’t work,’ ‘I would have done that better or done that differently or cut these things out or added that’.
“So I’m even in a position now, only a ﷺfew months ꦜremoved from last season, where if I get back on the grid next year I already have things that I want to do different and it’s quite cool. I wouldn’t have had that if I was still in the race car.”
Ricciardo ruled out returning to F1 “j🤪ust to be on the grid” and “struggle in 18th place” suggesting he’d only return with a competitive team.
“One thing I want to get out of this year is I want to know what I want, but I also want to know what I don’⛦t want,” he added. “And I think I can already answer that.
“I don’t want to go back to grou🍒nd zero. I don’t want to ꧟just be on the grid [in order] to be on the grid and struggle in 18th place. So I don’t want to be on the grid at any cost.
“I know that it’s harder to just jum♈p straight into a top team in terms of availability. B🐈ut I know that’s where I want to be. I know I thrive in those situations when there is more on the line.
“I think at this point in my career to [have] that real hunger and motivation to race at the𝓡 front, that’s that’s all I really want. I know it proba🌸bly makes it even a little harder to get to, but that’s where I’m looking.”
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