Dani🐓el Ricciardo is under “huge🧸 pressure” and might not suit his RB car, David Croft thinks.

Ricciardo has endured aܫ challen✤ging start to the F1 2024 season.

Even fellow Aussie, and former F1 champion, Alan Jones has que🌼stioned whether Ricciardo is past his best.

“He𒈔’s under huge pressure,” Crofty told  before Ricciardo𒆙's home race at the Australian Grand Prix, where he eventually finished P13.

“Ricciardo has not started the season that well.

“I’m sure ༺the RB will be a bett🦋er car in time. It might not be the best car for him at the moment.

“But he’s been beaten by his tea🍸mmate, and🃏 you have to judge yourself against your teammate, and that’s not in Daniel’s favour.

“I still think Daniel’s a fine driver.

“I think he deserves his place in the gr💖id, but we need to see more from him, and that will be the message getting throu🌄gh to him.”

Ricciardo entered this year hoping that some impressive results could propel him into a Red Bull, alongside Max ꦡVerstappen, in 2025.

But Sergio Perez has responded to the pressure that he faces to cling onto his seat, while Ricciardo has bꦏeen outshone by younger alternati🍬ves.

RB - last season named AlphaTauri - kept faith with Ricciardo this year despite Liam Lawson impressing while replacing thꦬe veteran Australia during an injury absence last season.

Lawson is looming in the wings, ready for his first full-ti🤡me F1 race 🦩seat.

Crofty warned: “Liam Lawson is tꦛhere and he’s ready.

“(RB’s) reason ꦿfor being is t🌊o bring young drivers through. Is that Daniel Ricciardo?”

F1 jo🐓urnalist Mark Hughes joined the questioning of Ricciardo.

He said on The Race F1 podcast: “Far ✃from is he on a trajectory still to be in the Red Bull, I’d say is he on a trajectory t𒀰o still be in the RB?”

Worryingly for Ricciardo, the reported after the Australian Grand Prix that he has a time♚ limit to ♛prove his worth.

Reportedly a two-race ultimatum has been hand🤪ed to Ricciardo which🦹 could result in him being replaced by Liam Lawson in Miami.