5/19/2023 0 Comments Anxiety by Danny Winter![]() The reduced stakes of the reserve driver role at Red Bull are giving Ricciardo the chance to reset and rebuild his knocked confidence. Stepping away for a year or two has worked for drivers before: Alain Prost came back from a sabbatical to win his fourth world championship, in 1993 Fernando Alonso took two years out and is now an F1 front-runner again. He returned to his former team, Red Bull, as a reserve driver. After splitting with McLaren at the end of last season with a year remaining on his contract, a mutual decision after a season of poor results and struggle for performance, he opted to take a year out of racing in F1. Ricciardo, with 232 races under his belt, was a spectator by choice. ![]() I’m trying to build myself back up.” (Mark Thompson/Getty Images) ![]() “I’ve got no hidden agenda,” Ricciardo says of his role as a reserve driver. ![]()
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