{"id":314753,"date":"2023-07-09T05:41:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T05:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314753"},"modified":"2023-07-09T05:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T05:58:15","slug":"ricciardos-comeback-hopes-ruthlessly-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=314753","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo's comeback hopes ruthlessly dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite Sergio Perez<\/a>'s continued struggles in the second Red Bull<\/a> seat, Daniel Ricciardo<\/a> doesn't appear to be in the frame as an immediate replacement.<\/p>\n

Perez was knocked out in the first part of qualifying for the British Grand Prix<\/a> \u2013 the fifth race in succession he will start the grand prix outside the top 10.<\/p>\n

In each of these five races, teammate Max Verstappen<\/a> has started from pole.<\/p>\n

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Perez's continued form slump immediately brought about calls for Ricciardo to be shoehorned into his seat.<\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/p>\n

But those suggestions have been shot down by Red Bull senior advisor Helmut Marko<\/a>, who delivered the message with a slight sting.<\/p>\n

"Perez has some weaknesses, this can't be denied if one car takes pole and the other can't even exit Q1," Marko said after qualifying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"But there is nobody who would be a viable replacement for him right now."<\/p>\n

Ricciardo returned to Red Bull this season as a reserve driver after two difficult years at McLaren<\/a> \u2013 save for that famous win at Monza in the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

When Ricciardo arrived back at Red Bull, the team claimed he was a shadow of his former self, having clearly been forced to adapt his naturally aggressive driving style in his four years away from Red Bull.<\/p>\n

\"F1<\/p>\n

He will get his first drive in Red Bull F1 machinery since the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a tyre test for Pirelli this week, and then another at Monza.<\/p>\n

Marko himself admitted the tyre tests are being used as an "evaluation" of Ricciardo's pace, but more likely with an eye towards a seat at junior squad AlphaTauri for 2024.<\/p>\n

Ricciardo's former team McLaren enjoyed their strongest showing of the year in qualifying at Silverstone<\/a>. Lando Norris will start second, and Oscar Piastri third.<\/p>\n

The British Grand Prix starts at midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Despite Sergio Perez's continued struggles in the second Red Bull seat, Daniel Ricciardo doesn't appear to be in the frame as an immediate replacement. Perez […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314758,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314753\/revisions\/314758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/314755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}