The Australian is currently acting as Red Bull’s reserve driver as a back-up for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez after losing his McLaren drive at the end of a difficult 2022 season. 💫;

Ricciardo recently admitted it would be a for him to end his F1 carౠeer by returning to race for Re𒀰d Bull. 

Such a move for next year looks an unlikely prospect given th🍃at Verstappen is tied down to a long-term deal, and Perez is contracted until the end of 2024. 

But with the under-pressure 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nyck de Vries in a battle toಌ save his AlphaTauri career, a seat could yet open up at Red Bull’s sister team next season. 

“I’m remaining open-minded,” Ricciardo exclusively told ltxcn.top about potentওially racing with AlphaTauri next year. 

“If it’s like ‘this is you and you are signing a tꦓhree-year deal and that’s the only place you are going to be’, then no, that’s maybe not the deal I would look for. 

“But if there’s the possibility to obviously be here [Red Bull]… The truth is this is where I want to be. I’m not goi🎃ng to weave my way around it.

“If that creates a path to get back here then yeah it’s ♕something I would look at because ultimately this is the place where I want to get back to.” 

A🔯sked how long he is willing to wait on the F1 sidelines, Ricciardo, who claimed seven of his eight F1 victories with Red Bull between 2014 and 2018, replied: "I’d love to get back on the grid next year. 

“If things didn’t turn out the way I’d like and I’m on the sidelines again next year, it’s not my Plan A but I wouldn’tꦉ freak out. 💧;

“I look at [Nico] Hulkenberg, who's been on the sidelines a few years - obviously done the odd race here and there - but he’s been pretty awesome this year.🎶 So I’m not concerned that I’ll ‘lose it’. 

“Obviously, I’m not getting younger though, so I don’t want to miss too much. Because I also don’t want to be [Fernando] Alonso ♈and in my fo🌊rties doing it. 

"But I look at him and I’m like ‘well if you are that good still, maybe I [would] still want to do it!’ But let’s see. If the team is like ‘well you can sit out next yea💫r and you have a seat for the year after’ I’d be like ‘alright sweet, of course I’ll sit out’. But I’d love to race.” 

Ricciardo revealed that he has not held t🃏alks or had any concrete offers from oth💯er teams.

“I’m staying open-min🐼ded and with a wide-lens on everything,” he explai🥂ned. “So I don’t want to be too stubborn. 

“Being back in this family, it does feel like the best thing for me. So ideally something comes from this famℱily and I don't have to look el✅sewhere.”

So how confident is Ricciardo of eventually getting back to the F1 grid ful꧂l-time?

“I’m pretty confident,” he said. “I🎐 don𝔉’t want to be too confident because I’ve never seen a contract and don’t have pen-on-paper or anything. 

“So I can’t be like ‘yeah I’m definitely on it’. But if you were like gun to head, you have to say yes or no, my answer is yes as oppo🍸sed to no. 

“I have a bit more confidence 🌞that I will be than I ♈won’t be.”