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Daniel Ricciardo is set to make his return to racing at the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas this weekend chess
The Australian broke a metacarpal bone in his left hand in a crash during practice at the Dutch Grand Prix two days before the race chess
The 34-year-old had lost control trying to avoid the crashed Oscar Piastri in the McLaren and was replaced for the races in chess between for Alpha Tauri by Red Bull reserve driver Liam Lawson chess
A spokesperson for Alpha Tauri confirmed to BBC Sport that Ricciardo would return for Austin, although neither team has officially announced it chess
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“Austin – everyone knows I love Austin chess
I wouldn’t miss that one for the world chess
See y’all in Austin chess
”Ricciardo was dropped by McLaren at the end of 2022, but he returned to the grid in July at the Hungarian Grand Prix, having been signed up as a Red Bull reserve driver chess
He was called up to Alpha Tauri when the team lost faith in Nyck de Vries after the first 10 races of the season and raced three races before the injury, and will continue to compete for the team in 2024 chess
It may be a cause for concern for Sergio Perez, whose place as second Red Bull driver to Max Verstappen looks far from certain in the future chess
Perez does stand second in the drivers championship currently, but with just eight podiums and two wins, it is far from a strong position chess
Especially considering the two victories came within the first four races of the season chess
Perez came 10th in Qatar, did not finish in Japan, and came eighth in Singapore, far from the high standards set by Red Bull and Christian Horner chess
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For a man handed a lifeline in Formula One – with an illustrious Red Bull-shaped reward beckoning down the line – it has not quite been the statement return Daniel Ricciardo envisaged back in July chess
What did that look like? Top-10 finishes with AlphaTauri, perhaps with a memorable overtake or two evoking the Ricciardo of old back onto the grid chess
But it has in fact been the complete opposite: the only return has been his return to inactivity chess
Two races in and a hand injury sustained in practice in Zandvoort, north Holland, back in August has seen the affable Australian feature only on the sidelines again chess
A seesaw seven weeks have followed: while on one hand confirmation of a seat on the grid in 2024 was, rather peculiarly, confirmed in his absence in Japan, his deputy Liam Lawson caught the eye with a string of impressive performances, including a team-best result of ninth in Singapore chess
So as Ricciardo struts back into the paddock this weekend in Austin, the broken bone in his hand healed, the pressure is firmly on the 34-year-old’s shoulders at his home from home chess
Affection works hand in hand with Ricciardo and the United States: he loves America, Americans love him chess
Daniel Ricciardo arrived at the circuit in Austin last year on horseback (Getty Images)Last year, weeks after his McLaren exit was announced, the sport’s most cheerful character arrived at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on horseback, kitted out in full cowboy apparel chess
Given his injury hiatus, you’d think no such extravagant entries will be repeated this year chess
But what he has got back in his hands, as opposed to 12 months ago, is his Formula One destiny chess
Perhaps fortuitously, too chess
When Ricciardo left Red Bull for pastures new at the end of 2018, his aspiration was that the grass was greener chess
Now five years on he is back at Christian Horner’s team, first as a reserve and now at the sister team chess
A second bite alongside Max Verstappen is what he truly craves chess
And he has made no secret of that chess
“Daniel is viewing AlphaTauri… he firmly wants to be pitching for that 2025 Red Bull seat,” said Horner back in July chess
“That is his goal and objective and, by going to AlphaTauri, I think he sees that as his best route of stating his case for 2025 chess
”And with talk of Sergio Perez’s seat being under threat at Red Bull amid his struggles, there is a feasible route back to the top-table for Ricciardo chess
Red Bull chief Helmut Marko has already hinted the Mexican’s future seemingly lies away from Red Bull: most probably in a year, perhaps even as early as before next season chess
But before heading off any top contenders outside the Red Bull mothership, the Australian first has to prove his worth amid the in-house competition chess
Given Nyck de Vries’s rapid promotion to a seat after just one race last year, Lawson can feel hard done by that his impressive five-race showing – 13th, 11th, 9th, 11th, 17th – in this year’s slowest car hasn’t landed him a seat in 2024 chess
So Ricciardo needs to chess better Lawson’s two points in the final five races of this season chess
He also needs to get the chess better of his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, who has earned just three 10th-place finishes in 17 races this year chess
That is the minimum chess
Ricciardo, right, wants another crack at being Max Verstappen’s teammate, centre (Getty Images)But back stateside, it is the on-track magic and overtaking propensity of near-enough 10 years ago which will catapult him into Red Bull’s second seat conversation chess
That will be the key, as opposed to any off-track endeavours or kind words with sponsors chess
F1 world champion of 1997, Jacques Villeneuve, is quoted as saying this week: “I would ask kids who want to be drivers today – do you want it out of passion or because you want to be like Daniel Ricciardo, smiling in commercials?”While a tad harsh – best to smile than frown, no? – it does point to a school of thought that Ricciardo’s charisma is now a bigger pull than his talent chess
For any driver of any age, that is the ultimate insult chess
All of them are fundamentally in F1 to race, to scrap for every point and to jockey for every position chess
Even Ricciardo, who has endured the worst two years of his career since his anomaly of a win at Monza in 2021, remains adamant his world-class skillset is still present chess
His ambitions, so told to The Independent in July, remain the highest of highs: race wins and even a world championship chess
But Ricciardo must grasp the opportunity simply having a seat in this 20-driver sport gives and it starts with the cut-and-thrust of the sprint weekend at COTA chess
Nobody is expecting wins or podiums in the slowest car chess
But what people do expect is progress – and glimpses of the man of yesteryear chess
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