“I will stay a few more years”– Daniel Ricciardo on his future in Formula 1

“I will stay a few more years”– Daniel Ricciardo speaks about his future in Formula 1 and explains the struggles about surviving in it.

Daniel Ricciardo has managed to create his own legacy if not win a championship in Formula 1, the Australian driver is highly rated by all the teams on the grid, and back in 2019, when he was leaving Red Bull, the Milton-Keynes team wanted him to stay.

Currently employed with Mclaren, he didn’t have an impactful start with the Woking-based team, but they hunted him for two years before joining them.

Speaking on his time in F1, which is now a little more than a decade, Ricciardo talks about the struggle of surviving within the competition and when will he consider his time over.

“You know, it depends on many factors. In this sport I have always considered myself a winner, so if I were constantly out of points and without a right team behind me I would probably say ‘Okay, my time here is up, goodbye’,” said Ricciardo to Motorsport.com.

“But at the moment I think I will stay a few more years, and in view of the 200 Grand Prix finish line, if I look back on what I see it makes me happy, because arriving in Formula 1 is the most difficult goal for a driver to achieve, but also staying there is absolutely not easy.”

“So I’m proud of my path, obviously I would have liked a World title but I’m happy and satisfied with the choices I made. Then, in terms of the future, we’ll see what it holds for me ”.

A world outside F1

Ricciardo talks about his possibility of having a life outside F1, and wonders there would be a time in his life when he won’t feel like pushing a car to the limit.

“I don’t know, really. I look at Alonso and see that he is fine, but I am sure that at some point I will say ‘Okay, enough’, I’m tired or I don’t want to push a car to the limit anymore.”

“Maybe when you get older other things start coming, but I don’t think they will happen to me anytime soon. Maybe five, seven years, who knows … “

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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