Daniel Ricciardo's reported return to Red Bull as third driver could put him back in line for a race seat with his former team, it has been claimed. F1
‘Daniel Ricciardo has a good chance of replacing Sergio Perez at Red Bull’Ralf Schumacher thinks Max Verstappen would prefer Daniel Ricciardo to Sergio Perez as his team-mate, ahead of the Australian’s return to Red Bull as third driver.
It looked to have boiled down to Mercedes and Red Bull for the Australian’s services as a substitute – and Marko told Sky Germany at Yas Marina that it will bewhen he raced for them between 2014 and 2018. “Accordingly, I could imagine his contract also gives him the opportunity to have a say in who drives next to him. And I think he prefers Ricciardo.”Let’s not forget why Ricciardo finds himself settling for a third driver role next year – he has vastly under-performed for McLaren.
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