Christian Horner confirms Daniel Ricciardo will not race at Monza following the HORRIFIC Dutch GP crash
Daniel Ricciardo could miss at least 3-4 upcoming F1 races.
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Christian Horner and Daniel Ricciardo (Credits: Imago)
Daniel Ricciardo, the former eight-time Grand Prix winner, broke one of his wrists during the FP2 session of the Dutch GP and has since been out of action. While he did not take part in any session after FP2, Christian Horner has confirmed that he is also going to sit out this week’s race at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza circuit
Daniel Ricciardo is currently on his road to recovery and could miss a few races even after the upcoming race. Franz Tost, the AlphaTauri Team Principal, during the Dutch GP weekend, claimed that Ricciardo could be out for around 6 weeks depending on the pace of his recovery from his unfortunate wrist injury.
A lot has been said about the honey badger’s troubles in the F1 paddock, and while addressing his situation in Zandvoort, Christian Horner said, as reported by BBC, “Now it’s all about recovery. For a normal human being that would be a couple of months. For a Grand Prix driver, it’s usually much shorter. We need to see how the recovery goes, but certainly not Italy.”
The Brit has made it clear that having Daniel Ricciardo at the back of AT04’s wheel in Monza is just not a possibility but has also admitted that he could return to F1 action soon if he can make a speedy recovery. Until then, Liam Lawson will keep taking the At04 a spin during F1 Grand Prix weekends.
Daniel Ricciardo has had a tumultuous 2023 F1 season
While Daniel Ricciardo is currently on the sidelines because of his Zandvoort crash, 2023 has been a roller coaster ride for him. At the end of 2022, he was brutally removed from the McLaren F1 team, and for the ongoing campaign, he took on the mantle of Red Bull’s reserve driver.
Moreover, after just ten rounds, he was asked to take on the challenge of driving AlphaTauri’s car after Nyck De Vries’s sacking, and with him only taken the AT04 for a spin twice during separate F1 races, he is once again on the sidelines looking at the action from the outside. No one could have scripted the way the ongoing campaign has panned out for him.
After the upcoming race in Italy, round 16 of the 2023 F1 season will get underway from 15th September onwards. Considering that there is not a whole of time between Italy and the race at Singapore, Ricciardo might also get forced to sit out the famous night race at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
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