Daniel Ricciardo “will call” if he wants Haas move, says Guenther Steiner, who also provides Mick Schumacher update
The final year of Ricciardo’s contract with McLaren has been terminated so he will leave at the end of a disappointing 2022 and is now considering how to remain in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 driver line-up with only a few spots available.
Haas have a vacant seat due to their unwillingness to commit to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mick Schumacher beyond the end of his contract, which ex𝔍𝔍pires at the end of this season.
"In his situation, 🌳Daniel first has to decide for himself what he does,” Haas team principal Steiner toldꦆ RTL.
“It makes little sense to persuade him to do something, he has to decideꦑ for himself.
“I🉐f he feels like it, he will certainly call, otherwise he 🌸will probably say, ‘I'll do a sabbatical or something else’."
Haas, Alpine, Williams and Alfa Romeo have the only current vacant seats for the F1 2023 season.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo delivered an update on his future to the Fitzy and Wippa radio show in Australiaไ: “When I say I don’t know, I don’t have a contract yet for next y♚ear.
“Could it still happen? It cou𒈔ld. I guess I’m not getting too caught up in next year. Of course I wantꦍ to race, I want to be on the grid, I want to be competing.
“But I’m not kind of seeing next year as all or nothing. Obviously 2024 is som💖ething I want to b▨e aware of and look at.
“So that’s kind of where I’m like, if it means taking a step back to then take two steps forward, then that’s what we’re trying to figure out♛ at the moment, me and my team. So that could be a year off.”
Ricciardo explained that a one-year sabbatical wo🌊uld be t🍃o enable him to “get back on the grid for 2024”.
What next for Mick Schumacher?
The son of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher was criticised earlier this season by St▨einer for crashing t♑oo often and has a “50-50” chance of staying with Haas next year, his boss says.
Steiner told RTL he will not put a time limit on making a decision: "You put yourself under pressure and we don't need that, we only play against ours🐠elves. We don't really 𒈔have any time pressure, all the others have the time pressure, but we don't, that's an advantage we don't take away from ourselves."
St🐎einer admitted Nico Hulkenberg was an option: "A man like Nico brings experience.
"What can a driveꦕr do to make the team better and bring us to 👍the top?
"How much risk do you want to take? With a young driver, you usually take more risks because you don't know h🍌ow far he can go.
"You can't calculate that mathematically."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade𒉰 cov👍ering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
