- Pink Bull Racing feeder workforce RB has dropped Daniel Ricciardo
- Liam Lawson will race with RB for the rest of the season
- Lawson could also be promoted to Pink Bull if he manages to outperform present RB driver Yuki Tsunoda
Daniel Ricciardo has been dropped by the RB Components 1 workforce, probably marking the tip of his F1 profession.
The Pink Bull Racing feeder workforce introduced on Thursday that Liam Lawson will substitute Ricciardo for the rest of the 2024 season.
The information is not an enormous shock as Ricciardo hinted ultimately weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix that the race is likely to be the last time he hops in an F1 automotive in a aggressive setting.
Lawson has been a part of Pink Bull’s driver improvement program since 2019 and served as a reserve driver since 2022. He has already participated in 5 F1 races, all of them in 2023 when he sat in for an injured Ricciardo at AlphaTauri, the workforce that was rebranded RB in 2024.
Liam Lawson – Photograph by way of RB
Lawson drove impressively in these 5 races, even managing to complete within the factors at that season’s Singapore Grand Prix by operating ninth. Ought to he handle to outshine RB’s different driver, Yuki Tsunoda, this season, there’s an opportunity he’ll ultimately be promoted to the Pink Bull workforce as a alternative for Sergio Perez, who has been slowed down all through a lot of the present season.
Ricciardo has loved eight wins in his F1 profession, most of them earned at Pink Bull. He made his debut halfway via the 2011 season, with former workforce Hispania Racing, because the alternative for Narain Karthikeyan. He joined Toro Rosso the subsequent season, the workforce that might later grow to be AlphaTauri and is at present RB. Over the subsequent couple of years, he impressed sufficient to realize a seat at Pink Bull in 2013, because the alternative for Mark Webber and teammate for Sebastian Vettel.
Ricciardo ultimately joined Renault in 2019 after which McLaren in 2021. He was dropped from McLaren halfway via 2022, after which he rejoined Pink Bull as a check driver in late 2022 in an effort to regain a seat. He was then signed to RB halfway via the 2023 season after the workforce dropped rookie Nyck de Vries. Nevertheless, he missed a lot of the the rest of the 2023 season resulting from wrist damage sustained throughout a follow session for the Dutch Grand Prix.
Ricciardo is one of many strongest personalities in F1 and hopefully will stay as a presenter.
