Ricciardo takes de Vries place at AlphaTauri

Daniel Ricciardo drove a Formula 1 car again as he was behind the wheel of Red Bull in a tire test at Silverstone, and he ended up replacing de Vries as he will race in the next event from the Formula One calendar.

BREAKING: Daniel Ricciardo to replace Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri for the rest of the 2023 season

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The pilot has spent this past campaign as a substitute pilot for Red Bull; through many people’s talks lately, he could take the place of Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri, and that’s exactly what happened.

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Nyck, in his 1^st season in Formula 1, had many problems this campaign, as he is in the last place in the standings without winning a point together with Logan Sargeant of Williams. His teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, won only 2 points this campaign, finishing 19^th in Austria and 16^th at Silverstone in the last 2 weekends.

de Vries’s best result this season was in Monaco in May, when he ended up 12^th, but he was in the 17^th or a worse place in each of the last 3 races from the F1 calendar.

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