Our friends at Formula_Nerds have debated what Daniel Ricciardo's F1 return could mean for the other members of the Red Bull family.
. But it’s not as simple as a straight swap at AlphaTauri. What might the downstream implications be?
As we know, Red Bull and AlphaTauri drivers are “centrally contracted”, meaning they can easily be moved between teams’ mid-season, as we’ve seen in the past. It’s a transition that may have begun when it was announced that AlphaTauri would be changing its identity and direction for 2024. With the outfit destined to be less a junior team and more a ‘B’ team moving forward, how does that factor into the Red Bull/AlphaTauri driver equation? And if so, how?
We won’t know the answer to the first one until we’ve seen him on track a few times. And the answer to the second most likely lies in the fact that there are now substantive benchmarks for him to compare Ricciardo against, thus removing some of the ambiguity. Red Bull was very careful to highlight the ‘loan’ nature of Ricciardo’s move to AlphaTauri. This in itself is nothing unusual for the team, as previously mentioned. But the fact they did mention it is.
Ultimately, Ricciardo looks right at home having returned to Red Bull, so if he can’t get back to his dive-bombing former self at AlphaTauri, would he be able to at the senior team? If Ricciardo indeed does perform, don’t expect Perez to be in the Red Bull stable come the start of next season. Perez at AlphaTauri? I can’t see it. I can’t see either party wanting it.
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