The Australian, who served as Red Bull’s third driver, replaces De Vries until the end of the season.
Daniel Ricciardo, third classified in the 2014 and 2016 World Cups, returns to Formula 1 with AlphaTauri, where he will take the seat of nyck devries until the end of the season. The Australian, who until now has been Red Bull’s third driver, has convinced Christian Horner and Franz Tostdirectors of Red Bull and AlphaTauri, after their performance during a tire test, held this Tuesday at Silverstone.
“I am very happy to welcome Daniel back to the team,” said Tost, who will already count on Ricciardo during the next Hungarian GP. To the main team Austrian has not trembled his pulse to lower De Vries, clearly surpassed by Yuki Tsunoda during the first 10 races of the championship.
Horner, for his part, stressed that Ricciardo had not “lost form while he has been away from racing”, in reference to these months in which the former teammate of max verstappen He was left off the grid, after not being renewed by McLaren.
“Very impressive”
“His times were extremely competitive. It was a very impressive drive and we can’t wait to see what the rest of the season has in store for Daniel,” added the Briton.
Ricciardo, for his part, also showed his enthusiasm for the new adventure: “I am delighted to be back on the track with the Red Bull family!” commented the winner of seven races with the Austrian team, to which he added one with McLaren ( Italian GP 2021).
In this first half of the World Cup, De Vries, F2 champion in 2019, had lost his particular duel with Tsunoda both in the race (2-7), and in the qualifying sessions (2-8), where he had rolled 2, 01 seconds on average slower.
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