'Just two years ago he was the next World Champion, the next big thing, huge hype, and now he’s exiting the sport like that.' F1
, doing simulator working, testing and demo runs.
“Difficult to understand also why he was struggling to get that performance of the car, the performance that we’re used to seeing from him. “And of course, he’ll have a good reset now, a year out, and who knows, maybe he’ll have another chance to get back in.”Daniel Ricciardo was, until Max Verstappen came along, Red Bull’s second most successful driver behind their four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel. But up against a rising Verstappen in 2018, and publicly blamed by the team for their Baku crash, he opted to ply his trade elsewhere – namely Renault.
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