{"id":394766,"date":"2022-11-24T00:41:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394766"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:58:05","slug":"australian-ricciardo-returns-to-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/australian-ricciardo-returns-to-red-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Ricciardo returns to Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Daniel Ricciardo will return to the Red Bull&#8217;s squad as test and third driver next season, the Formula One world champion announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can confirm that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielricciardo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DanielRicciardo<\/a> will return home and re-join Oracle Red Bull Racing as the third driver for 2023 \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DR3ack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DR3ack<\/a> \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing\/status\/1595403474619047938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The smile says it all,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019m truly excited to be coming back home to Oracle Red Bull Racing as their Third Driver in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I already have so many fond memories of my time here, but the welcome from Christian [Horner], Dr [Helmut] Marko and the entire team is something I\u2019m sincerely appreciative of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me personally, the ability to contribute to and be surrounded by the best team in F1 is hugely appealing, whilst also giving me some time to recharge and refocus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t wait to be with the team and support with simulator work, testing sessions and commercial activities. Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Ricciardo departed McLaren at the end of the 2022 season, making way for compatriot Oscar Piastri, who races alongside Lando Norris in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-time Grand Prix winner \u2013 who took a one-two for McLaren at Monza in 2021 \u2013 will return to Red Bull to assist with testing, simulator work and commercial activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This looks familiar \ud83d\ude04\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DR3ack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DR3ack<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KUY9M4hxvk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KUY9M4hxvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing\/status\/1595409572969254912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Daniel Ricciardo will return to the Red Bull&#8217;s squad as test and third driver next season, the Formula One world champion announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394767,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16923,16924,16922],"news_category":[16921,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He will serve as Red Bull\u2019s test and third driver in Formula 1 for 2023","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394766"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394766"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}