Why Ricciardo reckons his McLaren struggles may give substitute Piastri a ‘head begin’ in his maiden season

Forward of his debut Method 1 season, rookie Oscar Piastri has acquired some phrases of knowledge from his McLaren predecessor Daniel Ricciardo – who reckons that his younger compatriot will profit from classes the crew realized from his personal struggles within the automotive.

Ricciardo spent two years at McLaren – after becoming a member of from Renault in 2021 – however struggled to match crew mate Lando Norris throughout that point, with the crew from Woking saying in August that the eight-time race winner can be departing on the finish of the 2022 season, one 12 months sooner than deliberate.

McLaren later revealed that F2 champion Piastri can be changing Ricciardo in 2023 – solely after the Contract Recognition Board dominated in favour of the papaya crew of their dispute with Alpine concerning who had the proper to the younger Australian’s providers in 2023.

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On the F1 Past the Grid podcast, host Tom Clarkson requested Ricciardo what recommendation he would give to Piastri forward of his maiden season, to which he replied: “I feel simply exit and drive. I do know that appears like a extremely lazy response but it surely’s simply go and drive.

“Study, be a sponge, however drive. Don’t see the bar too excessive for your self, if you find yourself doing higher than perhaps what you thought, superior, however simply take it race by race. However so long as you might be studying and you’re feeling like you might be bettering each race, I feel that’s all you’ll be able to type of ask for your self.”

Over the course of their time as crew mates, Norris outscored Ricciardo by 130 factors, however the Australian doesn’t count on his struggles to be in useless, believing that McLaren will use the data gathered from his time with them to assist Piastri get a “head begin”.

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“I feel additionally even when we didn’t fairly get it proper from my facet, with McLaren I feel they nonetheless would’ve learnt a bunch from our two years, and perhaps issues the place we deviated, went a bit of unsuitable or sideways,” stated Ricciardo.

“So, I feel all that, that data might be handed on to Oscar and I feel they’ll. I want to suppose they’ll have a bit of little bit of a head begin from that viewpoint.”