The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
Think Red Bull are doing it the right way by trialing him in Alpha Tauir. They seem to be at little to no loss while Perez holds onto second, especially when Max could probably wrap up the championship on his own.
He’s a likeable guy but I honestly don’t think Ricciardo has earned a move straight back into Red Bull. Compared poorly to Norris last season. 17/18 Ricciardo you could easily argue was peak Ricciardo whereas 17/18 Verstappen was very raw and was the match of him at that stage.
Good to see him back on the grid with a chance to progress. Glad De Vries was given a go too. Decent cameo last year in a back marker but didn’t work out.
In my opinion, if ricciardo does as he and his bosses would expect him to do, ie out qualify his team mate consistently and sneak the odd point out of a crap car, he will be in the red bull next year.
If you consider what redbull need in the 2nd car, I'm a little surprised he hasn't been put straight in.
They want someone to finish just behind max or win when max has a bad day.
Perez was somewhat doing that but has fallen off a cliff now.
Who else can they trust to do.thst job. Everyone they try don't seem to be up to it.
Ricciardo is the only team mate so far to be competitive with max and would surely do that job.
While Logan isn't an out and out pay driver like Latifi was, he's still bringing in more bucks then DeVries would have been.
I would say it was him driving as a reserve for Aston Martin and Williams last year that got him the gig. I thought he should have went to Williams but he choose Alpha Tauri because I suppose he thought they would have a better car. How wrong was he. He might have still had a seat in F1 had he choose the Williams seat.
Dani gets to race in Vegas that's all he ever wanted anyway.
DeVries was quite left field to begin with as a pick with his age and no RB academy history.
It seemed to be his Formula E Championship that got him the gig.
i think you might have to.....
I can't wait for the hype when Ricciardo beats Checo in qualifying
He has to finish ahead of his team mate.
Anything else is weekend specific imo. The haas can be hit and miss from track to track.
Hopefully he does.
It's the moment of truth for him, but there isn't much risk to it. He's already 34 so if he continued out of the sport for a couple of seasons, he was finished anyway. Now he gets a chance to prove himself and earn a drive for next year. If he messes up, he's only back to square 1 and out of the sport. He has almost nothing to lose.
Well Danny better show up and prove he still has it. If he doesn't he is finished in F1, pretty risky move this for him
I keep thinking of De Vries as a young driver but he’s 28! Its a shame for him that the seat he got seems to be the worst AT in a while, very unlikely to see him outside of a reserve role again.
But the Ricciardo move makes sense for RB. A clear message to Sergio about his performance. I know Ricciardo saw no point last year in getting a non-competitive seat, so I presume he’s looking at this as an opportunity to put himself in the frame for next year beside Max.
For now, even if it's below 10th, there are three drivers he needs to be finishing ahead of, Tsnouoda, Hulkenberg and Bottas.
The ship has probably sailed for him, but at one point he was certainly a WC quality driver. He struggled at McClaren compared to Norris but at the same time he won a race for them, something Norris hasn't done.
He's definitely an upgrade on DeVries, he's in a slow car but he's got a race seat and he's a direct line into Perez's seat which is not looking safe at the moment. If they can chuck DeVries halfway through the season, they can certainly chuck Checo at the end of this one.
He’ll have cleaner races than Devries anyway who has had a few crashes and penalties. But scoring points in that car will be a tall order, most weekends it’s a toss up between them and Alfa Romeo for the slowest car on track.
Exactly and if he is better than De Vries he will hopefully score points and maybe even beat Tsunado too and who knows maybe the car will Really suit him.
I am going to say he will be better than De Vries and maybe even Tsunado too.
On Ricciardo and De Vries, I usually advocate for giving youth a chance over keeping older drivers who are not very good anymore but are familiar. But this case is different. De Vries has had his chance and it hasn't worked. Ricciardo was good but went cold in it's last few years.
He's worth another shot and Red Bull have found a low stakes way to give him another go. If he's worse than De Vries, then he won't score points but that's exactly what De Vries has done so there's no real risk.
It’s a decent colour combo but I don’t find the Gulf renditions (Monaco 22 & this) to be great liveries. Theres still plenty of black which takes away from them which could be said for a lot of cars.
Not gone on the orange styled like a battery health bar and the blue itself has a pattern but Williams are trying something different. Nice for a change though.
I do love a gulf livery
To take in drivers and spit them back out in a ruthless fashion? They don't offer much else lately.
Helmut Marko has Max doing the business and the other 3 are dispensible at the drop of a hat.
You do know the reason why Alpha Tauri exist as an F1 team?
...or you get your Daddy to buy a team for you to drive in.
That's an odd take, Danny Ric is a multiple F1 grand prix winner and Lawson is an unknown quantity when it comes to F1.
Madness - House of Fun is a good tune 😉
Scott Speed immediately came to mind for some reason. (I did check his F1 results before posting.)
Great to see Ricciardo back but I would have thought Liam Lawson deserved an F1 seat before Ricciardo.
Madness
Yep.
Scott Speed?
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