Daniel Ricciardo He will leave McLaren at the end of this season. Brazil and Abu Dhabi are the two remaining races. His future is still unofficial, although everything indicates that he will sign with the team Mercedes to be a reserve driver behind of Lewis Hamilton Y George Russell.
The Australian has not announced what he will do in the immediate future. On the Formula 1 website he has left some striking statements talking about “revenge”: “If any option makes sense for 2024, I’ll come back with a vengeance and try to have a good time.”
“I want to take the necessary time to decide. I have to keep some distance with Formula 1 to rebuild myself,” Ricciardo said.
Asked about Mercedes and about Hamilton’s situation, precisely because of those rumors that place him as a reserve driver, he hopes that the Briton will not retire soon: “The reality is that I want Lewis to continue in Formula 1.”
“He is one of the greatest of all time and I think that competing wheel to wheel against him is fun and incredible. Normally, it is usually the final goal, so I would like things like that to be repeated in the future,” he detailed. the still McLaren driver.
Although he is clear that Hamilton’s situation will not condition his: “I don’t think my future will depend on what others doThat’s the way I see it.”
“Let’s say there will be opportunities, but I’m not going to try to convince someone to do something so that I can find a way to come back,” said the driver.
