Ricciardo: De Vries can “rep help up” after shedding AlphaTauri F1 power

F1 rookie de Vries changed into once dropped by the Faenza personnel final week and has been replaced by former McLaren driver Ricciardo from this weekend’s Hungarian Unprecedented Prix.

When requested by Motorsport.com if he had sympathy for de Vries, Ricciardo cited his non-public skills of getting back from a spell out of the cockpit within the first half of this season as an illustration of what can happen.

“For obvious you are feeling for other drivers,” acknowledged Ricciardo, who changed into once himself dropped by McLaren for Oscar Piastri.

“We put a lifestyles’s work into this. And so or now not it’s one amongst those ones where I invent if truth be told feel for Nyck.

“I know in F1 he is now not always if truth be told in particular skilled, nonetheless in motor racing he is. He’s in his slack 20s.

“So I if truth be told feel admire he’s dilapidated enough to non-public the sport. And if he clean wants it to work, I gather he can rep help up and compose one thing happen.

“So yeah, watch at me a year ago, I wasn’t obvious if I would possibly ever bustle an F1 car but again. And a year later, here I am. So things can happen. For sure, if he clean wants it, cope with his chin up.

“It be admire anything in lifestyles, you rep knocked down, on the opposite hand or now not it’s the model you rep help up. And I wish him neatly. And if I ever noticed him on the grid but again, then I will be overjoyed too.”

Daniel Ricciardo, Scuderia AlphaTauri

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Alex Albon, who changed into once himself dropped by Crimson Bull at the conclude of the 2020 season and spent the following year racing in DTM while performing because the personnel’s third driver, acknowledged he understood how Ricciardo would possibly maybe presumably well presumably return refreshed after a crash.

The Williams driver acknowledged: “I had a year out, he’s had a limited bit less, nonetheless I if truth be told invent gather that year helped me.

“In case you are within the circus, and things don’t look like going neatly, and you are correct going bustle to bustle to bustle, you should now not if truth be told in a jam to ponder and to non-public if truth be told what is occurring on, you correct if truth be told feel admire you are within the washer a limited bit.

“And having that time, or now not it could presumably well maybe be principal with a just to ponder and to present a rob to. Nonetheless or now not it’s furthermore correct purely fine within the sense that you rep time away, and you would possibly maybe presumably well maybe presumably fully reset mentally.

“Since the reset is extremely vital, you open to lose a bit of of self assurance and having time away I gather removes the demons in some respects.

“I valued my time in DTM, attributable to it changed into once if truth be told riding one thing a limited bit assorted. Nonetheless it gave me self assurance in a original roughly arrangement, I changed into once clean riding a racing car. So that you proceed to wanted to be confident and riding that car roughly did that to me.”

Albon added that he “started extra confident than I left” when he did return to F1 sooner than the 2022 season, and believes Ricciardo can skills a identical profit after two complicated seasons at McLaren.

“Just correct seeing Daniel and seeing the fun he has, I gather that’s came about to him as neatly,” he acknowledged.