Daniel Ricciardo replaced at RB by Liam Lawson for remainder of 2024 F1 season

Ricciardo’s jovial character and sense of humour has made him one among F1’s hottest characters all through his 13-year profession.

And for seven seasons, from 2014 to 2020 inclusive, he was thought of one of many sport’s main drivers.

He was promoted to the Crimson Bull group from the junior outfit in 2014 and outperformed four-time champion Sebastian Vettel in his first season, scoring three wins to the German’s none.

They had been the primary of seven spectacular wins in his 5 years at Crimson Bull, at a time when Mercedes had been dominating the game, lots of them due to swashbuckling late-dive overtaking manoeuvres. These turned a Ricciardo trademark.

However Ricciardo’s profession started to enter decline after he determined to go away Crimson Bull on the finish of 2018.

Ricciardo felt that the group was coalescing round his team-mate Max Verstappen, who was promoted from the junior group in 2016 and gained on his debut in Spain.

Verstappen progressively imposed his superiority over Ricciardo, who felt there was no approach for him to reverse the development as administration more and more leant in the direction of the Dutchman.

Ricciardo determined to take a profitable provide from Renault, who paid him $55m over two seasons in 2019-20, hoping he may construct a future with the French group.

His performances remained sturdy, and he outperformed his first team-mate Nico Hulkenberg over 2019 after which Esteban Ocon in 2020, earlier than shifting to McLaren for 2021.

That change was the start of the tip for Ricciardo. Though he took his last victory within the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, he was outperformed by team-mate Lando Norris by means of the season.

And when the development continued and was enhanced in 2022, McLaren determined to drop Ricciardo in favour of fellow Australian Oscar Piastri on the finish of the season, a yr earlier than his contract was attributable to expire.

Ricciardo was given a lifeline by Crimson Bull, who made him their reserve driver for 2023, after which promoted him to a race seat at their second group halfway by means of final season as a substitute for Dutchman Nyck de Vries.

On the time, Crimson Bull’s considering was that Ricciardo could possibly be a possible substitute for Sergio Perez as Verstappen’s team-mate in the principle group.

However on steadiness Ricciardo has been outperformed by Tsunoda, and his performances have dominated him out of rivalry for a return to Crimson Bull.

His last hurrah was to assist out Verstappen by securing the quickest lap of the race ultimately weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, denying the Dutchman’s title rival Lando Norris an additional level.