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Australian F1 star Daniel Ricciardo is set to be replaced at McLaren by compatriot wonderkid Oscar Piastri, according to a variety of reports.

This is wrong and I have not signed a contract with Alpine for 2023. Remarkably, he won both championships. He also travels with the team to each grand prix where he sits in on driver meetings and is often active in the team garage. Notably, Zhou Guanyu finished third in the standings but managed to secure a seat with Alfa Romeo as a driver for the current Formula 1 season. The F1 driver merry-go-round is in full swing with Alpine initially announcing Piastri would be in their team next year as a replacement for Fernando Alonso, who was moving to Aston Martin after the retirement of Sebastian Vettel. It's understood McLaren wants to ensure the 33-year-old gets to another F1 team before announcing the recruitment of Piastri for next year, who recently denied he was driving for Alpine in 2023.

Formula One is famed for its ruthless decisions. Daniel Ricciardo has been sacked by Zak Brown and McLaren mid way through his 2 year contract with the team ...

It appeared the team blamed him for the contact in Baku and that loss of confidence was something Ricciardo never recovered from. Surely it is a no brainer that Alpine recruit the scorned McLaren driver for next season. With hindsight it’s easy to see the mistakes F1 drivers make in their careers, but leaving Red Bull for Alpine in 2019 was Ricciardo’s biggest mistake by far. This was not fatal for Red bull’s Australian driver and he had the confidence of the team to continue. He also needs a car not so on the very edge where it breaks away from the driver without notice. 2017 saw Ricciardo win a race for Red Bull together with 7 podiums but the team was poor who were only third as a constructor. Now Red Bull’s lead driver for 4 seasons Daniel Ricciardo faced his toughest year for the Milan Keynes team. Following a collision with team mate Verstappen in round 4 of the championship which saw both cars eliminated,. Thank you, Damon – we need to do better.’ And I thought the guy we chose would do better and in fact it was a serious error of judgment. Damon Hill was sacked by Williams during the season he won the drivers’ world title for the team. Frank was ruthless in pursuit of the next great ‘thing’ but Hill was in good company. Frank Williams founder of the team year later later admitted, “I probably thought at the time, almost certainly did: ‘Great, great.

Daniel Ricciardo is set to be replaced at McLaren for the 2023 Formula 1 season by Oscar Piastri. Ricciardo has reportedly been asked to make way for his ...

“The choice for us has to be one that complements that goal. “I think what we need to focus on, for the plans that we have, for the next 89/88 races. And those are for all sorts of different considerations. That is thought to be unlikely, with Ricciardo expected to reach a settlement and move on, freeing the pathway for his compatriot. Should that indeed be the case, a settlement would need to be reached given the 33-year-old has a deal for 2023. “There are some considerations of going from a reserve driver contract with options, to become a racing driver, to that racing driver contract,” he stated.