The Australian is currently acting as Red Bull’s reserve driver as a back-up for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez after losing his McLaren drive at the end of a difficult❀ 2022 season. 

Ricciardo recently a🥂dmitted it would be a for him to end his 🔯F1 career by returning to race for Red Bull. 

Such a move for next year♑ looks an unlikely prospect given that Verstappen is tied down to a long-term deal, and Perez is contracted until the end of 2024. 

But with the under-pressure 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck de Vries in a battle to save his AlphaTaur﷽i career, a seat could yet open up at Red B🎐ull’s sister team next season. 

“I’m remaining open-minded,” Ricciardo exclusively told wuqian0821.com about potentially rac♉ing with AlphaTauri next year. 

“If it’s like ‘this is you and you are signing a three-year deal and that’s the only p🅰lace🌜 you are going to be’, then no, that’s maybe not the deal I would look for. 

“But if there’s the possibility to obviously be here [Red Bull]… The truth is this is where I want to b﷽e. I’m 🎃not going to weave my way around it.

“If that creates a path to get back here 𝓀then yeah it’s something I wꦆould look at because ultimately this is the place where I want to get back to.” 

Asked how long he is willing to wait on the F1 sidelines, 🥀Ricciardo, who claimed seven of his eight F1 victories with Red Bull between 2014 and 2018, replied: "I’d love to get back on the grid next year. 

“If things didn’t turn out the wa꧑y I’d like and I’m on the sidelines again next year, it’s not my Plan A but I wouldn’t fre𒁃ak out. 

“I look at [Nico] Hulkenberg, who's been on the sidelines a few years - obviously done the odd race here and there - but he’s been pretty awesome this year. So I’m not con♈cerned that I’ll ‘lose it’🍰. 

“Obviously, I’m not getting younger though, so I don’t want to miss too much. Because I also don’t waꦗnt to be [Fernando] Alonso an♓d in my forties doing it. 

"But I look at him and I’m like ‘well if you are that good still, maybe I [would] still want to do it!’ But let’s see. If the team is like ‘well you can sit out n🌠ext year and you have a seat for the year after’ I’d be like ‘alright sweet, of course I’ll sit out’. But I’d love to race.” 

Ricciardo revealed that he has not held talks or had any 🎉concrete offers from other teams.

“I’m staying open-minded and with a wide-lens 🐬on everything,” he explained. “So I don’t want to be too stubborn. 

“Being back in this family, it does fe♉el like the best thing for me. So ideally🍌 something comes from this family and I don't have to look elsewhere.”

So how confident is Ricciardo of event�🌺�ually getting back to the F1 grid full-time?

“I’m pretty confident,” he🐠 said. “I don’t want to be too confident because I’ve never seen a contr♛act and don’t have pen-on-paper or anything. 

“So I c෴an’t be like ‘yeah 🃏I’m definitely on it’. But if you were like gun to head, you have to say yes or no, my answer is yes as opposed to no. 

“I have a bit more conf💙idence that I will be than I won’t be.”