Formula 1: Ricciardo is under pressure at Red Bulls sister team, after failing to win a point in the opening three races as well as an underwhelming home grand prix in Australia.
You don’t have to search far to find speculation that eight-time grand prix winner Ricciardo is set to be shuffled out of the RB garage and into the Formula 1 wilderness.
Sergio Pérez is further behind Max Verstappen, yet the Mexican is thought to be doing enough to retain his seat at the championship-winning team. “There were some good signs in the Bahrain test, but the last few races haven’t been going too well,” “There are things through the race where I’ll mark. We have a button the wheel I can use as a reference to say, ‘That lap I felt something there’. There were — I’m not giving away secret information — things so I remember to tell the engineers after.“It’s good to get the understanding, the data gathering and all that.”But it doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem.
It’s happening perhaps slower than hoped, but Tsunoda is blossoming into an increasingly complete driver.“His speed was always beyond doubt for us. His problems were lack of control, outbursts and susceptibility to errors. All of that is gone this season.That last line is arguably the most troubling for Ricciardo. Despite Tsunoda’s obvious speed and improving racecraft, he’s never been — and by all accounts continues not to be — a contender for a Red Bull Racing promotion.
Ricciardo is widely understood to enjoy the backing of Red Bull Racing principal Christian Horner, who was determined to get him into the RB19 last year for the tyre test that underpinned the argument to sub him in for Nyck de Vries.Horner and Marko are now on opposite sides of the internal political divide, having reportedly attempted to undermine each other’s authority in the last 18 months in the power vacuum created by the death of former Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz.
It’s difficult to imagine him earning another contact if he can’t find the spark by the middle of the year, by which time the Red Bull program will need to have started nailing down its 2025 options at both teams.
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