Ricciardo, who is injured and missing from this weekend’s F1 Qatar Grand Prix, will retain his AlphaTauri drive next season alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda, at the expense of his impressive deputy 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson.

Ricciardo was himself a mid-season replacement for the misfiring Nyck de♈ Vries but his experience was the key trait that kept him ahead of Lawson in the pecking order.

“We had lots of discussions about the future of the team,” A🌱lphaTauri CEO Peter Bayer said. 

“Our shareholders said: ‘We want you to 🅺continue and e🐓ducate young drivers, but we also want you to be successful’.

“Ultimately you can’t have both.💞 You ca♈n’t have two ‘young drivers’ in the team.

“We were loo♒king at: what ꦚdo we need to deliver that purpose? 

“We finally came to the conclusion that, first of all, we only have two seats. Daniel is offering a lot of expertise, especially when it comes down🌠 to the set-up of the car, which is something that we were struggling with.

“Yuki, over the years has grown, and is now comi🧸ng to the pinnacle of his performance curve. And so we thought that those two make the right team. 

“It’s 🍎also good to have somebody like Liam just behind them to keep the fire wꦑarm under their seats and to make sure that we progress as a team.”

Tsunoda finished 11th in the sprint race at the Qatar Grand Pr🤡ix, but Lawson retired after just two corn꧟ers after an error.

Ricciardo plans to return to racing in 🍌Auওstin later this month after a wrist injury.

“He was in the simulatoꩵr on Monday,”ℱ Bayer revealed. 

“He sa👍id that he could go almost until the end, but it was n🌺ot 100 percent.

“And we didn’t want to rush things.”