‘Bombshell’ in F1 market: “Singapore looks like Daniel Ricciardo’s last race”

The Formula 1 market continues to surprise this year 2024. At the beginning of the year the Hamilton signed for Ferrari by 2025, Carlos Sainz will sign for Williamsweeks ago the Grove team hit Sergeant to lift the debutante Franco Colapinto, and recently the arrival of Adrian Newey in Aston Martin. But the matter is not over yet. Sargeant may not be the only one leaving his seat before the course ends. The next one might be Daniel Ricciardo (35 years old).

This is what the former F1 driver says Ralf Schumacher. In statements on ‘Sky Sports’brother of the 7-time world champion, assured that Singapore will be the last race where the Australian will compete with the RB team, which would have decided to hand its wheel to the youngster from the Red Bull academy Liam Lawson so that he can get of experience to prepare the 2025 academic year.

“Unfortunately, this looks like the last race for Daniel Ricciardo in Singapore. And Liam Lawson will drive from then on. “Maybe that’s part of the contract too, otherwise Red Bull would lose Lawson.”said the German. “RB is a Red Bull junior team. That’s what management always says and supported: ‘We will focus on young drivers, our own drivers.’ And that’s why it makes sense,” he added.

Lawson had a chance

It should be remembered that Liam Lawson, after finishing third in his second year in Formula 2 in 2022 and last year, had to replace the emergency Daniel Ricciardo and AlphaTauri (previous team name RB) in Formula 1 competing in 5 Grand Prix with the B team of Red Bull in F1 due to the Australian’s injury due to an accident in Zandvoort. He performed well, scoring in Singapore with a ninth place.

To continue training, in 2023 he attended the prestigious Japanese Super Formulawhere he was 2nd in the championship with 3 wins. And in 2024 he was working as a reserve driver for Red Bull.

A few months ago, Liam already recognized that his goal is to drive in F1 in 2025 and his priority is to continue to Red Bullbut he doesn’t rule out looking for another team if he isn’t given a chance. Your message has been received Helmut Markocounselor Red Bullwho a few weeks ago pointed out that he will be an RB driver in 2025. But that moment could be sooner. According to Ralf Schumacher, Liam Lawson will debut as official RB drivers at the next United States Grand Prixin Austinto compete in the last 6 races of 2024.

Ricciardo, second missed opportunity

After being left tireless at McLaren at the end of the 2022 season, Daniel Ricciardo returned to F1 in the middle of last year, when the season started, to replace Nyck De Vries because of the bad results the Dutchman had accumulated.

The Australian wants a second chance after being dropped from the Woking squad due to lack of performance. He wants to be like before, the driver who was amazing at Red Bull and decided to leave years ago to stop being in Max’s shadow. After a year at Renault and two at McLaren, Red Bull want to recapture Daniel’s best level where Christian Horner and Helmut Marko continue to see potential. But it failed to gain popularity.

Since then, there has been much speculation even with the option that Daniel could replace ‘Checo’ Pérez in the ‘A’ formation alongside Verstappen. however, Daniel did not perform to the expected level this second time and in the 2024 F1 season he has 12 points, 10 less than his teammate Yuki Tsunoda. At 35 years old, this could be the end of the career of the nickname ‘Honey Badger’.