Team boss throws Ricciardo Formula 1 lifeline

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Daniel Ricciardo indispensable determine what helium wants to bash with his Formula One future. If helium wants to contention adjacent season, the bosses astatine Haas said it is up to the operator to telephone the team.

McLaren bought retired the last play of Ricciardo's declaration aft 2 underwhelming seasons. The fashionable Australian is presently jobless for 2023.

"If he's funny successful us, he's not shy to telephone maine up. I americium not going to pursuit him down," Guenther Steiner, squad main astatine Haas, told The Associated Press.

F1 makes its 2nd halt of the play successful the United States this weekend, astatine Circuit of the Americas successful Texas, and the lone American-owned squad is 1 of lone 2 with seats unfastened for adjacent season.

Team proprietor Gene Haas has fixed Mick Schumacher the remaining 4 races to beryllium helium deserves a 3rd twelvemonth successful the seat. If Schumacher is not retained, Haas would articulation Williams arsenic the lone teams with seats inactive unfastened for 2023.

A brainsick summertime of escaped bureau moves lone included Ricciardo due to the fact that McLaren wanted him retired of his seat. Since helium accepted the buyout, respective different drivers person either received declaration extensions oregon person made different 2023 plans.

Steiner said nary operator has been signed yet for the Haas spot alongside Kevin Magnussen, and that he's had small interaction with Ricciardo since helium sent the operator a affable substance during the tallness of summertime speculation astir Ricciardo's job. Gene Haas acknowledged to the AP the organisation has had conversations with different drivers astir Schumacher's seat.

Ricciardo is not 1 of them.

"I privation him to determine what helium wants to bash for himself, first, earlier being talked into something," Steiner told the AP. "I deliberation he's a bully operator and I don't cognize however helium got successful the concern he's successful now, but I deliberation helium needs to travel cleanable with himself and determine what he's going to do."

Steiner finds Ricciardo's past 2 seasons perplexing. Although helium did people a triumph past season, Ricciardo has been a tremendous disappointment astatine McLaren and is consistently outrun by teammate Lando Norris and adjacent twelvemonth is being replaced by countryman Oscar Piastri, a rookie.

"For america helium would beryllium a large hit. He was a contention victor and present helium is without a job," Steiner said. "He was a contention victor conscionable past year. I complaint him arsenic a driver, I person nary thought wherefore helium doesn't execute close now. That is for him to fig out."

As for the unfastened spot astatine Williams, wherever Nicholas Latifi is not returning, American Logan Sargeant volition marque his F1 debut connected Friday erstwhile helium participates successful the archetypal signifier session. He volition beryllium the archetypal American connected way during an F1 league since Alexander Rossi successful 2015.

Sargeant is simply a Williams Academy operator presently competing successful F2. The Florida autochthonal is hoping to capable the Williams spot and go the archetypal American since Rossi successful an F1 race.

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