How Ricciardo’s bombshell rocks the F1 driver market
Daniel Ricciardo's shock move from Red Bull to Renault for next season has further complicated the tangled web that is the 2019 driver market. So how are the remaining puzzle pieces set?
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Ricciardo rocked everybody from the upper echelons of Red Bull to the journalists writing that his new contract with the team was a formality with his decision to leave the team for Renault at the end of the year. The long-term impact of the bombshell will be a fascinating sub-plot to the next two Formula 1 seasons, but it creates huge ripples in the short-term as well.
F1's driver market silly season is usually a complex web that it is traced back to a single strand, but this year's looked different. Below the top teams was an unruly, largely disconnected mess. Several drivers had, and still have, several options. So several futures remain possible.
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