Fans go uncontrollable as F1 Engineer reveals Daniel Riccardo has been offered to drive for…

Daniel Ricciardo appears happy in his new role at Red Bull Racing since his Formula one career took a turn for the worse. McLaren felt Ricciardo was never going to turn the corner and scoring a rookie level of points when compared to his team mate Lando Norris.

The replacement of young Mick Schumacher with Nico Hulkenberg, who hasn’t raced full time in F1 for 2 whole seasons, proved the likes of Haas F1 wanted an experienced driver like Ricciardo.

One scenario for Ricciardo turning down a drive at Haas was due to the deteriorating relationship between Verstappen and Sergio Perez opened a door for his return to Red Bull.

Perez had made it public before the Mexican GP he would hope his team mate would help him win his home race now the drivers’ championship was won.

Fans go uncontrollable as F1 Engineer reveals Daniel Riccardo has been offered to drive for…

Verstappen made it very clear over the pit radio in Brazil that these kind of requests should not be made and that he had “given his decision last time” [in Mexico] on the matter.

Perez then derided his team mate’s character over the pit radio stating Max refusal to let him pass “showed what kind of person he is.”

Checo is believed to have a new two year contract extension starting in 2023, though it may well be a one year deal with an opportunity of rat elates to extend to two years, so any kind of immediate return to the Red Bull F1 race car for Verstappen is clearly not on the cards.

Another scenario is that had Ricciardo had taken another race seat this year, McLaren’s payout would have been mitigated. Whether the Aussie wants them to feel the pain of the cheque they had to write or not, only he will know.

The upcoming series of Netflix, “Drive to Survive” will reveal Ricciardo was in fact prepared to drive for Haas F1 this season.

One of the episodes will show a fly on the wall conversation between Haas boss Gunther Steiner and lead driver Kevin Magnussen. They are discussing the replacement for Mick Schumacher.

Magnussen suggests, “Ricciardo?”

“We can’t afford it, Kevin. He wants ten f***ing million. Minimum.” Steiner retorts.

Depending on the terms of the McLaren severance agreement, it could be Ricciardo needed Haas to pay £10m to compensate him for the loss of McLaren money he’d suffer when taking another F1 racing role.

Which is why the apparently unreasonable demand of “10 million” was made.

So Ricciardo failing to agree a driver with either Williams or Haas F1 cold have been nothing to do with the fact they were “beneath” him in some way, just that they couldn’t afford to match his McLaren payoff which forced Daniel to take a year out or lose substantial amounts of money.