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Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo was dismissed Thursday by the Red Bull Racing junior team effectively immediately, ending his second stint in the sport with an unusual mid-season departure. The move comes as the once-dominant Red Bull faces fresh struggles in the 2024 championship, and difficult questions about its future. The RB team is known for auditioning potential candidates to promote to the senior Red Bull team. Ricciardo began driving for the Red Bull junior team in 2011 before getting promoted to the senior team in 2014. Mekies welcomed Lawson, who has impressed leaders of the Red Bull team while occasionally subbing in for one of its drivers.

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☆ Eight-time F1 race winner Daniel Ricciardo leaves RB, replaced by Liam Lawson
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team (RB) have announced that Daniel Ricciardo has left the team with immediate effect. He will be replaced by Red Bull junior driver Liam Lawson in a move that brings weeks of speculation to an end. So getting signed up by the Red Bull program when I was 18 … having that responsibility, that pressure, all of that, it forced me to grow up.”Ricciardo celebrates winning the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix with Red Bull. The team has served as a development ground for future Red Bull drivers in the past, but no driver has received the call-up since Alex Albon in 2019. He stepped in for Ricciardo for five races in 2023 when Ricciardo suffered a wrist injury and has served as the reserve driver for both Red Bull and RB.

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☆ Daniel Ricciardo: How driver went from a ‘shy’ teenager to one of F1’s most effervescent characters
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Samuel Joseph | Sam Joseph | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Australian former F1 driver Mark Webber partakes in Ricciardo's infamous 'Shoey' celebration, drinking champagne out of Ricciardo's race boot. Ricciardo became the 14th Australian driver to start a race when he made his debut for HRT F1 Team in 2011. He replaced Dutchman Nyck de Vries mid-season at the junior team, renamed to AlphaTauri and rebranded as the “sister team” to Red Bull. Red Bull realitiesRicciardo’s return to Red Bull marked a full circle moment for the Aussie, having joined the team’s academy in 2008. Despite having a contract for the next two seasons, incumbent Red Bull second driver Sergio Pérez is on the hotseat after recent struggles.

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Already given one career lifeline this season, Ricciardo missed the last five races with a broken left hand. But he returns this week to the U.S. Grand Prix, where the 34-year-old Australian has a history of having some cheeky fun. Long time no see," Ricciardo said to the group of his fellow drivers when he walked into Thursday's news conference. The hand feels good,” Ricciardo said, adding that the bone break that required surgery was worse than initially expected. Eventually there will have to be a serious side to the racing, which has not been so good for Ricciardo in recent years.

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☆ Daniel Ricciardo Fights His Way Back in Formula 1
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Ian Parkes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There was a point earlier this year when Daniel Ricciardo realized he was through with rediscovering normal life and that he still wanted to be a Formula 1 driver. Ricciardo had spent two lazy months at home in Australia with family and friends after he was dropped by McLaren last year, trying to determine whether the love he once held for the sport still existed. “Other than that day, I was living life,” Ricciardo said in an interview. “I wasn’t going stupid, but I was having beers with friends, camping, fishing, doing these things. I didn’t want to become a bit of a slob.”

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