Sebastian Vettel has made it clear where the blame lies for Daniel Ricciardo's struggles. F1 BelgianGP
Vettel, who will retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season, was Ricciardo's teammate at Red Bull in 2014.
"I still want it from a competitive point of view, but I've never been a guy who wants to be on the grid just for the sake of being on the grid," he said."This isn't the end for me, but I can't control anything that lies ahead at the moment. But in terms of me still having the will to compete at the highest level, that's absolutely still in me. The last 18 months … there's been some lows, but that will to compete hasn't gone away.
"When I put the helmet on, I feel confident that there's a switch that flicks to help shut things out," he said. "The rule changes for this year raised expectations – their expectations of me in year two, but also their expectation of the car," Ricciardo said. He said arriving back at Spa-Francorchamps not having a drive in 2023 - not publicly anyway - will be a "weird" feeling."It's less than a year ago that I won Monza … it feels like four months ago, all those feelings are still very clear for me," he said.
"It's not something where I wish I'd done something different – I obviously wish the stopwatch had been different in my time here, but it's not like I was slacking off and got what I deserved.
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