Daniel Ricciardo said goodbye to Formula 1 after being replaced from the RB team this Thursday. The Australian driver took the opportunity to say goodbye after the Singapore Grand Prix and stated that he had “loved this sport throughout” his “life.”
“I have loved this sport my entire life. It’s wild and wonderful; “and it has been a great journey,” Ricciardo wrote on his social networks. The 35-year-old driver achieved eight victories – seven with Red Bull and one with McLaren – and 32 podiums, with an eighteenth place in the Singapore Grand Prix last Sunday, in which he set the fastest lap: one of the 17 he set in his F1 career.
“To the individuals and teams who have been part of this I want to thank you. To the fans who love this sport, sometimes a little more than me, ha ha (sic), thank you. It will always have its ups and downs; But it has been fun and if I am honest, I would not change it,” he noted.
Who will replace Daniel Ricciardo at RB?
The New Zealander Liam Lawson will replace the Australian Daniel Ricciardo, starting with the next Grand Prix of the Formula One World Championship -The one from the United States, in three weekends, in Austin (Texas).
Lawson, born 22 years ago in Hastings, had replaced Ricciardo himself last season, when the team – heir to Toro Rosso – after the Perth driver crashed in the second free practice for the Dutch Grand Prix, in Zandvoort.
The New Zealander made a pleasant impression in the five F1 races he competed in and he managed to score (two) points in the Singapore Grand Prix, which he finished ninth.
Ricciardo was in fourteenth place in the World Cup, with 12 points -two places behind and with 10 points less than Tsunoda; while RB is sixth in the team competition, with 34 units: 52 less than Aston Martin, the team of Spanish double world champion Fernando Alonso.
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