Ricciardo To Return To F1 Grid In Hungary With Alpha Tauri
The Formula 1 paddock returns to Budapest this weekend for the Hungarian Grand Prix on the fashionable Hungaroring circuit.
Max Verstappen is searching for a seventh grand prix victory in a row at a monitor the place he received final yr from tenth on the grid. The Dutchman is cruising to a 3rd world championship this season, at the moment holding a 99-point to Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in second.
Yet the most important speaking level this weekend is Daniel Ricciardo’s return to the grid with AlphaTauri. The Australian, dropped by McLaren final yr, replaces Nyck de Vries for the rest of this season and begins at a monitor the place he claimed his second F1 victory in 2014.
Lando Norris can be hoping to again up his robust efficiency for McLaren at Silverstone two weeks in the past, a race the place Lewis Hamilton completed third for Mercedes. Hamilton is an eight-time winner in Hungary.
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Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 11:51
Lewis Hamilton reacts to Nyck de Vries axing: ‘That’s how Red Bull work’
Daniel Ricciardo has been handed a second likelihood in Formula One, changing De Vries at Red Bull’s junior crew AlphaTauri for the concluding dozen rounds of the yr, beginning on the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.
De Vries, 28, crashed on a number of events and failed to attain a single level, with a greatest end of twelfth in Monaco, earlier than he was handed his marching orders by Red Bull’s ruthless motorsport adviser Helmut Marko 48 hours after he completed seventeenth and final on the British Grand Prix.
“I am not surprised to see Daniel back but I was surprised to see the decision they took for poor Nyck,” stated Hamilton on the Hungaroring.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 11:32
Red Bull has handed Daniel Ricciardo step one to Sergio Perez’s seat
Analysis by Kieran Jackson
Within the Red Bull ecosystem, encompassing two groups on the Formula 1 grid and the junior crew beneath, there isn’t any doubting who the senior statesman is. When Dr Helmut Marko speaks, individuals pay attention. And for Nyck de Vries, the writing has been on the wall for some time now.
Asked after the British Grand Prix whether or not Red Bull’s ‘third driver’ Daniel Ricciardo might change De Vries at Red Bull’s sister crew AlphaTauri, Marko grinned. A smile which advised us the whole lot we have to know. “We’ll have the tyre test next week and then we’ll see,” he said.
That take a look at, with Ricciardo within the cockpit of Red Bull’s RB19 rocketship for the primary time this season, came about on Tuesday morning at Silverstone. Hours later, the Australian’s return to F1 was confirmed.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 11:13
The children have some enjoyable within the press convention!
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 10:55
The second Lando Norris got here of age in British Grand Prix – and it wasn’t his tremendous begin
Comment by Kieran Jackson
At the start of the season, a mere 10 races in the past, Lando Norris endured an opener of excruciating torment in Bahrain. With his stricken McLaren impacted by a “pneumatic pressure leak”, the Brit valiantly took the chequered flag in useless final after pitting an astonishing six instances all through the race. It was, merely, a shambles.
But that now appears nothing however a distant reminiscence, 4 months on within the secure haven of the British Isles.
Most observers didn’t increase an eyebrow when McLaren introduced numerous upgrades to their automobile forward of the Austrian Grand Prix final week. It is the section of the season the place each crew is altering elements in quest of that additional tenth or two of pace. Usually, by the use of pure development, the advance is gradual. Yet out of an abyss of doom to start out 2023, the papaya have come storming again into rivalry.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 10:35
Constructors standings forward of the Hungarian Grand Prix:
3) Aston Martin – 181 factors
10) AlphaTauri – 2 factors
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 10:17
Sebastian Vettel hints at return to F1: ‘I have some ideas’
Sebastian Vettel revealed he “has some ideas” a couple of return to Formula 1 in some capability sooner or later.
The 36-year-old retired from the game after the 2022 season, leaving a long-lasting legacy together with his 4 championship triumphs with Red Bull from 2010-2013.
The German, who additionally raced for Ferrari and Aston Martin, is a local weather change activist and campaigner and commonly spoke out about environmental points in direction of the tip of his profession. Now, Vettel admits that he could be open to a return to F1 down the road, hinting that the game’s sustainability might be a possible avenue.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 09:57
Driver Standings forward of the Hungarian Grand Prix:
1) Max Verstappen – 255 factors
2) Sergio Perez – 156 factors
3) Fernando Alonso – 137 factors
4) Lewis Hamilton – 121 factors
5) Carlos Sainz – 83 factors
6) George Russell – 82 factors
7) Charles Leclerc – 74 factors
8) Lance Stroll – 44 factors
9) Lando Norris – 42 factors
10) Esteban Ocon – 31 factors
11) Oscar Piastri – 17 factors
12) Pierre Gasly – 16 factors
13) Alex Albon – 11 factors
14) Nico Hulkenberg – 9 factors
15) Valtteri Bottas – 5 factors
16) Zhou Guanyu – 4 factors
17) Yuki Tsunoda – 2 factors
18) Kevin Magnussen – 2 factors
19) Logan Sargeant – 0 factors
20) Nyck de Vries – 0 factors
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 09:48
Lewis Hamilton reacts to Nyck de Vries axing: ‘That’s how Red Bull work’
Daniel Ricciardo has been handed a second likelihood in Formula One, changing De Vries at Red Bull’s junior crew AlphaTauri for the concluding dozen rounds of the yr, beginning on the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.
De Vries, 28, crashed on a number of events and failed to attain a single level, with a greatest end of twelfth in Monaco, earlier than he was handed his marching orders by Red Bull’s ruthless motorsport adviser Helmut Marko 48 hours after he completed seventeenth and final on the British Grand Prix.
“I am not surprised to see Daniel back but I was surprised to see the decision they took for poor Nyck,” stated Hamilton on the Hungaroring.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 09:45
Daniel Ricciardo is again – and this time he desires to exit on high
Exclusive interview by Kieran Jackson
Daniel Ricciardo is pondering. This yr, a presence within the paddock – however not on the racetrack – has been a curiously flummoxing existence for somebody so synonymous with a seat on the 20-man desk. In his personal phrases, he has been doing “everything the drivers are doing… other than the driving.” So except for the plain of the lights-to-flag racing, what has the Australian discovered essentially the most troublesome about his eight months away from Formula 1?
“I’d say the starting grid on Sunday,” he says, a glint in his eye, a eager for one thing earlier. “I love that feeling before you’re about to race. It’s intense, it’s nerve-racking but it’s awesome. I miss that buzz.”
Well, miss it now not. The Honey Badger is again. Officially on mortgage from Red Bull to sister crew AlphaTauri for the rest of the season, Ricciardo final week changed the axed Nyck de Vries and can be within the cockpit in Hungary this weekend. It represents a lifeline – his lifeline – again into the game, a carving of a possibility so desperately craved. In the tip, he solely missed 10 races.
Kieran Jackson21 July 2023 09:43