“Everybody is expecting” Daniel Ricciardo to✱ lose his 2025 F1 drive with RB, Ted Kr𝔉avitz has claimed.

The whisper came from inside the Monza paddock at la༒st 🌼weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Ricciardo has spoken openly and honestly about the looming threat of bei🌃ng ditched from his drive for next season.

Sky Sports’ Kravitz wondered ꦺin Italy: “Are we going to have a driver announcement at RB before the Azerbaijan Grand Prix?

“We are all ♏expecting it. Ricciardop𓆏retty much telegraphed it on Thursday.

“Is that driver announcement going to be that Liam Lawson will pa🌞rtner Yuki Tsunoda next year?

“That is what everyone is expecting.”

The revelation is a bitter blow to Ricciardo.

He is out of contract at the end of thiꦆs season, and the 2025 F1 driver line-up has just two vacant seats available.

R🌠B (Ricciardo’s current drive) and Sauber are debating their driver choices before next year’s grid is complete.

Red Bull chief Helmut Marko recently piled the pressure onto Ricciardo by insisting that their reserve driver♔ Lawson was guaranteed a 2025 race seat.

All si♏gns pointed towards Lawson replಞacing Ricciardo.

But, Christian Horner clarified Marko’s statement by saying Lawson was not neceꦡssarily being placed in either of their teams’ cars.

“I haven’t had an🎶y unreasonable pressure,” Ricciardo sai꧑d in Monza last weekend.

“I haven’t had a ꦓhand on the shoulder pulling me into a room to say ‘do this, or else…’

“But I know what’s required. Maybe the tough talk🥀 doesn’t need to happen. I’ve known Helmut a long time. We all know what is required.

“Has he put extra pressure 💙o𝄹n me or been unreasonable? No.

“I don’t feel anythin𒆙g additional from it. But I know, I know what’s required.”

Ricciardo caused contact with Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg and served two ti༺me penalties at the Italian Grand Prix before a lacklustre P🃏13 finish.

He will be behind the wheel of the 🌊RB again in Baku, despite questions in Monza about whether he will be replaced midseason.

But time might have already run out for Ricciardo to impress Red Bull bosses enough t꧂o earn a new coꦡntract.