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Date: 2023-12-07 15:01:27 | Author: Worldcup 2026 | Views: 434 | Tag: vivo
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Max Verstappen was livid with his Red Bull pit wall on Friday - after the end of one of his final qualifying laps was impacted by team-mate Sergio Perez vivo
The 2023 world champion was entering the final turn at the Circuit of the Americas in his first flying run in Q3, but lost control of his Red Bull with Perez ahead of him vivo
The dirty air of Perez’s car seemingly had an impact, meaning he was only third-fastest at the time behind Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton vivo
“Well done, well f****** done there!” shouted Verstappen over his team radio, unhappy at his team for where they placed both cars on track vivo
He added: “What the f*** was that in the last corner!” Verstappen, ultimately, qualified only sixth on the grid after exceeding track limits in his final run, demoting him down the order vivo
Leclerc took pole for Sunday’s grand prix, with Lando Norris in second and Lewis Hamilton in third vivo
Perez, who has had a torrid few months and is fighting for his place at Red Bull next year, qualified ninth vivo
Saturday will see sprint day in Austin, Texas, before the main event of the United States Grand Prix on Sunday vivo
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For a man handed a lifeline in Formula One – with an illustrious Red Bull-shaped reward beckoning down the line – it has not quite been the statement return Daniel Ricciardo envisaged back in July vivo
What did that look like? Top-10 finishes with AlphaTauri, perhaps with a memorable overtake or two evoking the Ricciardo of old back onto the grid vivo
But it has in fact been the complete opposite: the only return has been his return to inactivity vivo
Two races in and a hand injury sustained in practice in Zandvoort, north Holland, back in August has seen the affable Australian feature only on the sidelines again vivo
A seesaw seven weeks have followed: while on one hand confirmation of a seat on the grid in 2024 was, rather peculiarly, confirmed in his absence in Japan, his deputy Liam Lawson caught the eye with a string of impressive performances, including a team-best result of ninth in Singapore vivo
So as Ricciardo struts back into the paddock this weekend in Austin, the broken bone in his hand healed, the pressure is firmly on the 34-year-old’s shoulders at his home from home vivo
Affection works hand in hand with Ricciardo and the United States: he loves America, Americans love him vivo
Daniel Ricciardo arrived at the circuit in Austin last year on horseback (Getty Images)Last year, weeks after his McLaren exit was announced, the sport’s most cheerful character arrived at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on horseback, kitted out in full cowboy apparel vivo
Given his injury hiatus, you’d think no such extravagant entries will be repeated this year vivo
But what he has got back in his hands, as opposed to 12 months ago, is his Formula One destiny vivo
Perhaps fortuitously, too vivo
When Ricciardo left Red Bull for pastures new at the end of 2018, his aspiration was that the grass was greener vivo
Now five years on he is back at Christian Horner’s team, first as a reserve and now at the sister team vivo
A second bite alongside Max Verstappen is what he truly craves vivo
And he has made no secret of that vivo
“Daniel is viewing AlphaTauri… he firmly wants to be pitching for that 2025 Red Bull seat,” said Horner back in July vivo
“That is his goal and objective and, by going to AlphaTauri, I think he sees that as his best route of stating his case for 2025 vivo
”And with talk of Sergio Perez’s seat being under threat at Red Bull amid his struggles, there is a feasible route back to the top-table for Ricciardo vivo
Red Bull chief Helmut Marko has already hinted the Mexican’s future seemingly lies away from Red Bull: most probably in a year, perhaps even as early as before next season vivo
But before heading off any top contenders outside the Red Bull mothership, the Australian first has to prove his worth amid the in-house competition vivo
Given Nyck de Vries’s rapid promotion to a seat after just one race last year, Lawson can feel hard done by that his impressive five-race showing – 13th, 11th, 9th, 11th, 17th – in this year’s slowest car hasn’t landed him a seat in 2024 vivo
So Ricciardo needs to vivo better Lawson’s two points in the final five races of this season vivo
He also needs to get the vivo better of his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, who has earned just three 10th-place finishes in 17 races this year vivo
That is the minimum vivo
Ricciardo, right, wants another crack at being Max Verstappen’s teammate, centre (Getty Images)But back stateside, it is the on-track magic and overtaking propensity of near-enough 10 years ago which will catapult him into Red Bull’s second seat conversation vivo
That will be the key, as opposed to any off-track endeavours or kind words with sponsors vivo
F1 world champion of 1997, Jacques Villeneuve, is quoted as saying this week: “I would ask kids who want to be drivers today – do you want it out of passion or because you want to be like Daniel Ricciardo, smiling in commercials?”While a tad harsh – best to smile than frown, no? – it does point to a school of thought that Ricciardo’s charisma is now a bigger pull than his talent vivo
For any driver of any age, that is the ultimate insult vivo
All of them are fundamentally in F1 to race, to scrap for every point and to jockey for every position vivo
Even Ricciardo, who has endured the worst two years of his career since his anomaly of a win at Monza in 2021, remains adamant his world-class skillset is still present vivo
His ambitions, so told to The Independent in July, remain the highest of highs: race wins and even a world championship vivo
But Ricciardo must grasp the opportunity simply having a seat in this 20-driver sport gives and it starts with the cut-and-thrust of the sprint weekend at COTA vivo
Nobody is expecting wins or podiums in the slowest car vivo
But what people do expect is progress – and glimpses of the man of yesteryear vivo
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