Jenson Button claims it would be 'game over' for Daniel Ricciardo if he takes up Mercedes' reserve driver role in 2023 F1 season × Create Notifications New User posted their first comment this is comment text Link Approve Reject & ban Delete Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Formula 1 Japanese GP News Jenson Button Game over for Daniel Ricciardo if he takes up Mercedes reserve driver role in 2023 F1 season Jenson Button (left) is not too optimistic about Daniel Ricciardo's (right) sabbatical plans for next season Like Like Excited Happy Anxious Angry Sad Comment Share Charanjot Singh ANALYST Follow Modified Oct 09, 2022 09:47 AM IST Jenson Button is not convinced that the role of a reserve driver at Mercedes is the best thing for Daniel Ricciardo. The 2009 world champion is part of the Sky F1 team this weekend and addressed Ricciardo's decision to join Mercedes as a reserve driver. Button questioned what the motive of going to Mercedes as a reserve driver could be if Ricciardo doesn't even get to drive the car. He said: “Being a third driver for someone of his calibre, it’s a very, very strange situation he’s found himself in. I don’t know what he would get out of being a third driver. He’s not a young driver, so he can’t drive the car next year in race weekends (free practice), it has to be a young driver. So he wouldn’t really get anything out of it. I guess he’ll probably think ‘well, Lewis [Hamilton] might retire and then I’ll jump in his seat’, but Lewis says he’s going to be around for five years. So he would be waiting a long time. So it needs to be the team where he thinks he can get a seat for 2024, otherwise, it’s game over because you get forgotten after a year in F1.” Sky Sports F1@SkySportsF1"I don't know what he's going to get out of being a third driver" ?‍Jenson Button gives his thoughts on what's next for Daniel Ricciardo 30417"I don't know what he's going to get out of being a third driver" ?‍Jenson Button gives his thoughts on what's next for Daniel Ricciardo https://t.co/rBDvIkUGZy Button also quashed suggestions that Daniel Ricciardo would be interested in moving to Le Mans as well. According to the former McLaren driver, Ricciardo is not at that point in his career and might even walk away from the sport if he does not get the right seat. He said: “Le Mans will be next year, with all the different manufacturers, proper exciting. You get in the door with a manufacturer as well, it could be a great future for him. But he’s not at that point yet, I don’t think, of thinking he wants to do something else. He might never do something else – like Lewis.” Daniel Ricciardo admits he won t be part of 2023 F1 grid Daniel Ricciardo revealed over the race weekend to Niharika Ghorpade of Sportskeeda that he will not be on the grid next season. He said: “Yeah, to be honest. I mean the [Pierre] Gasly news, I was aware of, you know, I knew they were talking for a while and I knew they were very interested in Pierre so… I would say like that’s no, let’s say I was prepared for that and no surprise so. We are trying to, let’s say, navigate our way around that and figure out what was next.” Niharika Ghorpade@F1NiharikaDR tells @SportskeedaF1 at the team media briefing that he wont be there in the 2023 season! #F1 . Looking at options for 2024 #JapaneseGP !171DR tells @SportskeedaF1 at the team media briefing that he wont be there in the 2023 season! #F1 . Looking at options for 2024 #JapaneseGP ! He further added: “But I think the reality is now I won’t be on the grid in ’23. I think it’s now just trying to set up for ’24. I think that there could be some better opportunities then, so that’s really what all this confirms and now where the sights are set.” Daniel Ricciardo was seen as one of the best drivers on the grid when he joined McLaren in the 2021 F1 season. His fall has been far too drastic to make sense of what has truly happened here. What's your favorite race of the 2022 season so far? Tell us in the comments below.. × Rate this story! Thank You! LIVE POLL Q. 0 votes so far Edited by Anurag C Like Like Excited Happy Anxious Angry Sad Share Comments Show More Comments GIF Comment in moderation 0 0 Reply x Edit Delete Delete the comment? No thanks Delete GIF Cancel Update GIF Cancel Reply ❮ ❯ GIF Comment in moderation 0 0 Reply x Edit Delete Delete the comment? 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