Daniel Ricciardo in a way was relieved that no top team offered him a race seat, as mentally he was set on having a break from F1.
As Ricciardo endured a second poor campaign with McLaren in 2022, the team decided to terminate the Aussie’s contract a year before it was set to expire, Oscar Piastri brought in as his replacement.
After the McLaren struggles, Ricciardo was clear in his mind that he wanted to take a break from being on the grid in 2023, but if one of these top teams had have reached out, then he would have felt obliged to say yes when his head was not in it., Ricciardo said: “There was a couple of times where [Ferrari] was linked. But, I think coming back to a seat next year [2023] as Guenther [Steiner, Haas team principal] said, he reached out.
Ricciardo acknowledges that his route is not one that all athletes would approve of, though in this regard, he says he does not necessarily subscribe to the “practice makes perfect” mindset., which he feels could be very beneficial.
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