Daniel Ricciardo would have been targeting a return to Red Bull for the 2025 season. Christian Horner gave him the chance to push the reset button on his F1 career at junior team RB. Ricciardo initially left Red Bull at the end of the 2018 season, five years after graduating from what was then Toro Rosso. He felt he had a better chance of achieving his ambitions elsewhere as Max Verstappen became an increasingly dominant presence in the garage. He gambled on French giants Renault, but they couldn’t mount a concerted assault on the front-running teams. His next team McLaren were more competitiv…
