- Ricciardo will reportedly drive for AlphaTauri in 2024
- New Zealand star Liam Lawson will miss out
- Piastri makes date with Martin Brundle
Aussie F1 celebrity Daniel Ricciardo will reportedly drive for AlphaTauri in 2024 regardless of spectacular performances from rising New Zealand expertise Liam Lawson.
Changed by Oscar Piastri at McLaren, Ricciardo returned to Purple Bull as reserve driver this season after failing to safe a seat for the 2023 season.
The Aussie finally returned to the grid final month, changing Nyck De Vries at AlphaTauri, Purple Bull’s sister staff.
The eight-time GP winner went on to race in Hungary and Belgium before fracturing his hand in seven places in a crash throughout free follow on the Dutch GP.
Lawson has been praised for his performances as Ricciardo’s substitute – even scoring factors in simply his third race on the Singapore GP earlier within the week.

Daniel Ricciardo will reportedly drive for AlphaTauri in 2024 regardless of stress from rising Kiwi star Liam Lawson

The eight-time GP winner returned to the grid final month however has been sidelined with harm
Nevertheless, in line with German motorsport reporter Tobi Gruner, AlphaTauri has determined to stay with Ricciardo and embattled driver Yuki Tsunoda for his or her 2024 season – that means Lawson will miss out.
Gruner took to X to inform his followers that Tsunoda has re-signed with AlphaTauri, and the announcement can be made at his house Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka later this week.
The contract extension for Ricciardo is predicted to be made public afterwards.
‘We anticipate Yuki Tsunoda to be confirmed for 2024 this week at Suzuka. Ricciardo’s announcement will observe later,’ Gruner wrote.
In the meantime, Oscar Piastri has supplied to reschedule an interview with Martin Brundle after the Sky pundit blanked him mid-chat on the Singapore Grand Prix.
Brundle earned the ire of Aussie racing followers after he started interviewing Piastri earlier than abruptly focusing his consideration elsewhere.
‘Oscar, dangerous luck in qualifying, you’ve got acquired some work to do within the race,’ Brundle started.
‘Yeah, we’ll strive our greatest and see if we will…’ Piastri replied earlier than Brundle ignored him utterly to attempt to seize the eye of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon.

Oscar Piastri has supplied to reschedule an interview with Martin Brundle after the pundit blanked him on the Singapore Grand Prix

Brundle has admitted that his snub of the Aussie wasn’t certainly one of his finest moments
‘Esteban, Esteban … pleased birthday,’ Brundle shouted whereas Piastri walked off, leaving the commentator with no person to interview.
Piastri does not maintain a grudge, although.
‘We could end that interview in Suzuka, Martin Brundle?’ he wrote on X, earlier than including: ‘FWIW, I would have finished the identical. Glad birthday Esteban Ocon.’
Brundle responded to Piastri, admitting that it wasn’t certainly one of his finest grid stroll moments.
‘Um, sure sorry about that Oscar, wasn’t my best grid stroll second in 26 years,’ he mentioned.
‘Simply needed to want Esteban pleased birthday as he strode previous, however you had been DRS open and full battery and fairly rightly dropped me like an Aussie Guidelines rookie.’