RB will conduct a evaluation of its drivers’ efficiency following this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, group principal Laurent Mekies has confirmed.
Daniel Ricciardo’s place on the group subsequent season has not been confirmed and a few reviews have prompt he may even get replaced following tomorrow’s Singapore Grand Prix.
Mekies didn’t touch upon these claims however did affirm the group will conduct one in every of its periodic assessments of its drivers after this weekend’s race.
“We’re doing drivers efficiency now and again,” Mekies informed Sky. “It’s one thing regular. We’ve got additionally made it fairly public.
“We did it after the primary a part of the season, we’ve achieved it earlier than the shutdown. We made additionally fairly public that we are going to sit down collectively after Singapore. That’s the place we’re, actually, so nothing determined up to now.”
Ricciardo was dropped by McLaren on the finish of 2022, one yr earlier than his contract was as a consequence of expire, following a string of poor performances. He returned to F1 final yr with Purple Bull’s second group, then often called AlphaTauri, as a substitute for Nyck de Vries.
Over the 17 rounds up to now this yr Ricciardo has scored 12 factors to Tsunoda’s 22. Tsunoda’s place on the group subsequent yr has been confirmed, and Ricciardo stated earlier this week he expects to be taught extra about his future after this weekend.
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“That’s when selections will probably be made,” he informed the official F1 channel. “Clearly us that know the contracts, that’s type of the place the dates fall. So after the weekend we’ll know extra.”
He admitted he “hoped for extra clearly for myself” this yr however stated his performances have improved over the season.
“Round Montreal, when the strain was undoubtedly constructing and ramping up, I feel since then it’s truly been definitely extra constructive than not,” stated Ricciardo. “In order that’s what I’ll preserve attempting to do and if it’s sufficient, it’s. If not, then that’s clearly as much as Purple Bull.
“I’ve been right here earlier than when it comes to there’s all the time been some hypothesis in the previous couple of years and clearly I used to be on this place with McLaren after which I assume you construct a little bit little bit of in all probability a tolerance to it or a thick pores and skin.
“But additionally I’m not the one one. One week it’s me, the subsequent week it’s one other driver that’s combating for his or her careers. So it’s additionally simply the way it goes, it’s the merry-go-round of the game. However what I signed up for.”
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