Formula 1: Earning Red Bull seat is Daniel Ricciardo's 'golden objective', says Christian Horner

Daniel Ricciardo was promoted to the Red Bull squad for 2014 earlier leaving for Renault astatine the extremity of the 2018 season

Daniel Ricciardo hopes to usage his instrumentality to Formula 1 with Alpha Tauri to gain a Red Bull spot successful the future, squad main Christian Horner says.

Max Verstappen's woody runs to 2028 but Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez is retired of declaration astatine the extremity of 2024.

"Daniel firmly wants to beryllium pitching for that 2025 Red Bull," said Horner.

"That's his aureate objective, and by going to Alpha Tauri helium sees that arsenic his champion way of stating his case."

Red Bull person dominated the 2023 play truthful far, winning each 10 races, with reigning satellite champion Verstappen taking 8 and Perez two.

But aft a beardown commencement to the season, Perez's signifier has slumped and the Mexican has failed to marque it into the apical 10 successful qualifying for the past 5 races - Verstappen has been connected rod presumption for each of them.

That has led to speculation arsenic to whether Red Bull volition regenerate Perez with Ricciardo if the Australian impresses alongside Yuki Tsunoda astatine Alpha Tauri.

Ricciardo mislaid his spot astatine McLaren astatine the extremity of past play and chose to rejoin Red Bull arsenic a 3rd driver for 2023.

Horner, who was speaking to the authoritative F1 Nation Hungarian GP preview podcast, said: "At the moment, there's lone thing successful spot until the extremity of the season, truthful determination are nary thoughts oregon expectations beyond that.

"We've loaned him to Alpha Tauri to the extremity of the year. Obviously, our drivers are going to beryllium Max and Checo again adjacent year, but it's ever bully to person endowment successful reserve."

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Horner said the squad are trying to enactment with Perez to amended his performances. He antecedently said helium believed the Mexican was putting himself nether excessively overmuch unit to effort to bushed Verstappen.

"Some of that has been atrocious luck, immoderate of it's been a small self-inflicted," Horner said.

"We're conscionable trying to assistance him done that period. He's inactive 2nd successful the satellite championship. He's won 2 grands prix truthful acold retired of the 10 this year, and helium started the play successful specified large form.

"We conscionable privation to assistance him rediscover that form."

Ricciardo trial showed 'the aged Daniel's inactive there'

Ricciardo's declaration with McLaren was terminated arsenic a effect of failing to get connected presumption with team-mate Lando Norris.

He drove for Alpha Tauri astatine the commencement of his vocation successful 2012 and 2013, erstwhile the squad were known arsenic Toro Rosso, and earned a instrumentality with an awesome show successful a trial astatine Silverstone past week.

Ricciardo was driving during a Pirelli tyre test, successful which the tyre supplier decides connected car set-up and the teams bash not cognize the details of the designs they are using.

But Horner said they could spot capable to cognize that Ricciardo was instantly accelerated compared to the times Verstappen and Perez had achieved astatine the British Grand Prix, the contention instantly preceding the trial connected the aforesaid track.

"What impressed maine the astir erstwhile I went up to person a look astatine the trial was, bearing successful caput helium hasn't been successful a car for 7 months, wrong his 3rd oregon 4th lap, helium was down to a clip that was wrong a 2nd of what our drivers were achieving," said the Red Bull boss.

"Then his archetypal due run, arsenic it were, connected tyres that were comparable, you could spot his assurance was increasing and growing.

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"And that 'first' lap, connected astir apt what was his seventh thigh connected the day, would person enactment him connected the beforehand enactment of the grid, truthful that was hugely impressive.

"I was conscionable pleased to spot that helium was inactive capable to run astatine that level.

"I mentioned to him 'that would person enactment you connected the beforehand enactment of the grid', and you could spot astir the alleviation successful his eyes. It astir was similar the unit released disconnected his shoulders, that helium could inactive bash it, that helium wasn't going mad, and the aged Daniel was inactive there.

"Then his agelong runs were precise awesome and the enactment that helium did for Pirelli was perfectly connected the money."

Horner said helium asked Ricciardo whether helium was prepared to instrumentality successful a squad which has been adjacent to the backmost of the grid truthful acold this season.

"First of all, it had to beryllium clear, did helium privation to bash it?" Horner said. "Stepping into an Alpha Tauri is precise antithetic to driving a Red Bull car, and it volition surely person its challenges.

"The happening that we needed to beryllium definite of is was helium up for that challenge, scrapping to get retired of Q1?

"And helium seemed much than blessed to spell backmost into that concern to get backmost connected the grid and beryllium a Formula 1 operator again."