Doco spills on angry boss' doomed Ricciardo bid

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Haas' improbable pursuit of Daniel Ricciardo is captured by a priceless infinitesimal successful the soon-to-be-released play of Drive to Survive.

The embattled Formula 1 squad entered talks with the Australian aft McLaren decided to chopped him loose astatine the extremity of the 2022 play with a twelvemonth to tally connected his contract.

But successful play 5 of the Netflix documentary, to beryllium released connected Friday, Haas brag Guenther Steiner vents to starring squad operator Kevin Magnussen astir Ricciardo's eyewatering asking price.

"We can't spend him, Kevin," Steiner said.

"He wants 10 f---ing million. Minimum!"

Steiner snapped arsenic an excited Magnussen entertained the imaginable of teaming up with Ricciardo.

Haas considered replacing Mick Schumacher with Ricciardo aft deciding to not renew the declaration of the lad of Formula 1 royalty Michael, pursuing 2 grim seasons successful the apical class.

But the antheral secured by Haas was Nico Hulkenberg, who's mounting a comeback aft 3 seasons without a Formula 1 seat.

Ricciardo inked a one-year woody with Red Bull successful November, agreeing to instrumentality portion successful testing, simulator enactment and commercialized duties.

The Western Australian lone managed to finish eighth successful the 2021 satellite title standings and 11th successful 2022.

He had fewer agleam moments astatine McLaren extracurricular a stellar triumph astatine the Monza Grand Prix successful September 2021.

Australian prodigy Oscar Piastri replaced Ricciardo astatine McLaren, pairing up with Lando Norris astatine the Woking-based team.

Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez volition aim to pb Red Bull to consecutive titles successful the constructors' standings successful the 2023 season, opening successful Bahrain successful the aboriginal hours of March 6 (AEDT).

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