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Ricciardo to replace De Vries at AlphaTauri from the Hungarian Grand Prix (www.formula1.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sboulema to c/[email protected]

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Daniel Ricciardo will make a sensational return to front-line Formula 1 racing at the upcoming Hungarian Grand Prix, with the Australian set to replace Nyck de Vries at the AlphaTauri team for the rest of the season.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Checo must be sweating and praying Ricciardo still hasn't found his groove.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

From The Guardian's article on this:

The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, said at the British Grand Prix that the team were still committed to Pérez. “He’s the type of guy that just needs an arm around his shoulder and you work with him,” he said. Tellingly, in 2020, Horner said of Albon, then also struggling at Red Bull: “We need to be patient with him and we’ll put an arm around his shoulder and make sure he feels he’s got the support.” Albon was replaced at the end of the season by Pérez.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We need to have an arm around them to just push them off the cliff. So telling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That is fairly damning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol at that comparison to Albon. Perez has produced some of my all-time favorite drives but there's no question he's in a big slump at the moment, and RB is rutheless with their non-Max drivers. I hope Ric does well enough to at least keep a seat somewhere on any team, even if it's not RB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you consider Austria as a win or at least podium for Albon and remove all of Perez's wins because Max had defects or a penalty, he isn't convincingly better than Albon imho.