Daniel Ricciardo was paid out by McLaren for the final year of his contract and uncertainty shrouds his next move. 9WWOS
“If it made sense, yes. It’s the only racing I’m interested in. F1 is what I love and where I see myself, if I’m doing any racing,” Ricciardo said. “But if the stars don’t align and it doesn’t make perfect sense next year, and if it means taking that time off to reset, then that’s the right thing to do.“That fire, that belief is still in me. I still love the sport. I haven’t lost that confidence in myself,” he added. “I want to do it competitively, I want to do it in the right place.
The decision stunned Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer, who has said he learned of Alonso's defection via the Aston Martin announcement. Ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, where the F1 season resumes following its mid-season break, Alonso confirmed he did not alert Szafnauer. Alonso hinted at frustration that Alpine, which has been developing F2 champion Oscar Piastri, was not offered a multi-year contract to return.“For one reason or another we were not moving forward a couple of months already and it seemed a logical move to me, because Aston was very willing to help me and trust on my abilities on track and off track," he said. "We were moving around in different things and we were not maybe agreeing on the principles.
“For sure there are some risk on every decision you make in Formula One. No one has a crystal ball to guess the future," he said. “Let’s see if we can short-cut that time as much as possible and make Aston Martin successful next season." “It wasn’t dropped , it wasn’t just a random call one day ‘Hey, this is what we’re doing,’” Ricciardo said. “I understood that was a point of concern, because the results I was getting were not up to the level that we all thought they could have been.
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