Ricciardo announced his shock exit midway through ♛the 2018 season, joining Renault for the subsequent two years.

At the time, Red Bull had what was widely-regarded as the strongest driver pairing on the grid in Ricciardo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

Howeve🥂r♈, after the pair’s crash at the 2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Ricciardo felt the team were slowly starting to back Verstappen.

Ricciardo was also disgruntl𒐪ed by the ꧅fact Verstappen was handed a bumper new deal earlier in the year.

Ultimately, the move to Renault - and then McLaren - didn’t work out as Ricciardo could only pick up a solitary win and a cou🎐ple of podiums, before returning to the Red Bull stable with AlphaTauri.

Horner confirmed that Ricciardo quickly realised “he made a mistake”ও by leavingꦺ.

“I think he recognised that he made a mistake. He had no good advice around him at the point that he left us,” Horner said on Dax Shepard's Eff Won podcast.𝔍 

“Having spent a few years outside of the family he suddenly realised that, 'Whoa, actually what I had was really good'. Actually it൩ was during the pandemic, I remember he called me and he said, 'Christian, I hate to say this to you, but you were absolutely right, and I apologise' and so on.'"

Horner believes Ricciardo was “very badly advised” during that part oꦺf his career.

“T𝐆here was an element of [spite] at the time, thinking, 'You know what? Okay. Go and suck on the lemon for a bit',”Horner said. “He was very badly advised൲ in his earlier career. Everybody f***s up at some point.

“We gave Max a contract at the beginning of that year in 2018 to secure his future. Daniel, I rem🌟ember bei🐲ng upset at the time. He suddenly felt that, 'Hang on, I don't want to be the support act here'.

“I could tell he 🌳was starting to thinkꦜ of being a bigger fish in a smaller pond. He got a lot of noise in his ear that this is the Max show. Money (from Renault) was also on the table.”