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 expires at the end of this seaso♕n.
"In his situation, Daniel first ✨has to decide for himself what he does,” Haas team principal Steiner told RTL.
“It makes little sense to persuade him to do s🔯omething, he has to decide for ๊himself.
“I𒊎f he feels like it, he will certainly call, otherwise he will probably say, ‘I'll do a sabbatical or someth😼ing 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 de൩livered an update on his future to the Fitzy and Wippa radio show i🃏n Australia: “When I say I don’t know, I don’t have a contract yet for next year.
“Could it still happen? It could. I guess I’m not getting too caught up in next year. Of course I wa𓆏nt 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 something I want to be 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 on𝔍e-year sabbatical would be to 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 Steiner for crashing too often and has a “50-50” chance of stay🌳ing wit🔥h 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 ourselves. We don't really ꦫhave 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."
Steine🅰r admitted Nico Hulkenberg w💜as an option: "A man like Nico brings experience.
"What can a driver do to make the team bette𓆏r and bring us to the top?
"How much risk do you want to take? With a young driver, yo♔u usually take more risks because you don't ꦓknow how far he can go.
"You can't calculate that mathematically."
James was aꦕ sports journalist at ༺Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
