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Daniel Ricciardo has ‘good idea’ Singapore Grand Prix might be his last F1 race
Asked why the team had pitted him for fresh tyres at the end of the race, a spokesperson for RB said: “If it was to be his last race, we wanted him to go out on a high.”
The RB spokesperson added that the team did not know whether a decision had been made. Ricciardo’s future will be decided by Red Bull management, primarily team principal Christian Horner and motorsport adviser Helmut Marko.
Ricciardo said: “I guess it [could] help Max out by Abu Dhabi so maybe there is a Christmas present coming if he wins by a point.”
Verstappen said: “He can ask for whatever he wants.”
The Dutchman, who was team-mate with Ricciardo at Red Bull from 2016-2018, paid tribute to the 35-year-old.
“He’s a great guy,” Verstappen said. “We always had a great relationship. We had a sporty rivalry in the team.
“He will be remembered as a great driver, as a great person. He has a great character. It’s very rare someone hates him. In a few years’ time when I won’t be here anymore, we will sit back and have a beer and remember all those years together.”
Ricciardo left Red Bull for Renault at the end of 2018 and spent two seasons in the French team, in which he performed competitively, before moving to McLaren in 2021.
Once there, he struggled to get on the pace of team-mate Norris, and was dropped after the 2022 season, a year before the end of his contract.
Ricciardo landed a role as Red Bull reserve for 2023 and was brought back to a race seat halfway through last season as a replacement for Dutchman Nyck de Vries, whose performances for the junior team had not been enough to satisfy management.
But two races into his return, Ricciardo broke his hand in a crash at the Dutch Grand Prix and was replaced by Lawson for five events.
Red Bull’s hope in bringing him back was that he might recover the form he had shown with them last decade and become a potential replacement for Sergio Perez as Verstappen’s team-mate.
But more often than not he has been outperformed by team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.
Ricciardo told Sky Sports: “I have to acknowledge why I came back after the McLaren stint and I always said I didn’t want to come back just to be on the grid – I wanted to fight at the front and get back with Red Bull.
“It didn’t come to fruition. I also have to ask myself the question of what else could I achieve and what else is there to really go for?
“I put my best foot forward and maybe the fairytale ending didn’t happen, but I also have to look back on what it’s been, 13 or so years. I’m proud.”
Ricciardo had to choke back tears when asked why he had sat so long in the cockpit of his car after the race.
He said: “A lot of emotions. I am aware it could be it. Just exhausted after the race, so a flood of emotions and feelings and exhaustion. The cockpit is something I got very used to for many years. Just wanted to savour the moment.”
Football
Tottenham’s John White and his son’s search for lost superstar
Too often, though, the character lacked depth: as thin as the page of the comic he seemed to spring from.
“He was this kind of Roy of the Rovers figure and as I got older I got frustrated and almost embarrassed by people having a better knowledge of my dad than I did,” Rob says.
“Part of the joy of having a father is finding our own identity – there is a little blueprint there and if we are lucky we follow the good bits and jettison the bad bits – but I didn’t have that.
“There is still a kid in me that wants to know the simple stuff: what he smelt like and sounded like, a bit more about him, rather than this persona. That is the eternal frustration.”
Rob channelled that frustration into a book – The Ghost of White Hart Lane – interviewing family members, former team-mates, friends and acquaintances, to try and discover the man behind the myth.
And gradually he found him.
Rob heard about the sadness and homesickness that would grip John each winter in London. He heard about the time he drove home dangerously drunk, clipping the White Hart Lane gates in his car. Most revealingly, an uncle told Rob about the child that John had fathered in Scotland and left behind before he travelled south, played for Spurs and met Sandra.
“Part of me has always been trying to live up to this person who was absolutely perfect, who was idolised not just by the family, but by hundreds of thousands of people,” says Rob.
“To find out he had defects and weaknesses, that he struggled with confidence, mental health and seasonal affective disorder, that he had made mistakes – if I had found all that out earlier, it would have made more sense to my life.
“If we know our parents are fallible, it really makes us understand that we can make mistakes. We don’t have to know all the answers.”
John’s absence shaped Rob as surely as his presence would have.
Rob is a still-life photographer – “I have always been looking for those details and clues” – and is also training as a counsellor.
Later this month, Rob will be in the audience at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the first performance of a play, called The Ghost of White Hart Lane, that he commissioned about his father’s life.
The staging is intended to share his father’s story to several generations of fans who remember neither John’s life or death.
“It is something I talk about with my own therapist,” he says. “Having seen life breathed into the story at the play’s read-throughs, it reinforced the reasons I wanted to get involved with the project.
“I think there is something of trying to bring my dad back to life.”
After two nights in Tottenham, the play will then transfer north, taking the opposite journey to the one John took in life, for a stint at the Edinburgh Festival., external
There are some things that remain lost. Rob is still searching for a recording of John’s voice. One of his match-worn Tottenham shirts remains elusive.
But over the decades, he has found much more: an understanding and an empathy for the father he never knew.
Football
Spain v France: Kylian Mbappe continues his bid to become game’s most decorated player in Euro 2024 semi-final
Playing against Bondy’s best was no mean feat given the tally of professional footballers among their alumni – which includes Arsenal defender William Saliba – is in double figures.
Project Mbappe didn’t stop there.
While a teenage Mbappe pinned up pictures of Ronaldo and watched old footage of Zinedine Zidane, another Real Madrid superstar, there was a third role model far closer to home – Jires Kembo Ekoko, his adopted brother.
Ekoko was taken in by Mbappe’s parents when he was nine and was selected for the French Federation’s national academy at Clairefontaine before playing professionally for Rennes in Ligue 1.
Ekoko was more than a decade older than Mbappe but had a big impact.
At the age of six, Mbappe had learned the French national anthem, explaining to his teacher that “one day, I’ll play in the World Cup for France”.
It wasn’t only Wilfried and Fayza who believed Mbappe was destined for big things.
Nike came calling with free shoes when he was just 10. A little over six years later, he made his first-team debut for Monaco. But the progress between those two points was not smooth.
Allan Momege was a classmate of Mbappe at Clairefontaine.
“At the time I met him, he wasn’t the player who impressed me the most,” Momege says of Mbappe in the BBC Sport documentary.
“He didn’t stand out for me as a player during the trials. The first time I saw him play, I didn’t think, ‘Wow!’
“There were regional selections and Kylian wasn’t in the best team.”
Matt Spiro, an author and French football expert, echoes Momege.
“Kylian initially found it a bit difficult at Clairefontaine,” he says. “He was there for two years and during the first year, he certainly wasn’t the best in his group. I think even Kylian would admit that.
“Mbappe would play out on the wing and would quite frequently be in a sulky mood. He had a growth spurt, I think towards the end of his first year in Clairefontaine, and by the second year, he was really starting to look the business.
“Then people were thinking, we’ve got a very, very special talent on our hands.”
That talent was picked up by Monaco scouts in July 2013, when he was aged 14.
Moving from the Parisian suburbs to the wealthy, sunny Cote d’Azur at such a young age could have made others go inside themselves.
Not the boy from Bondy.
Football
'Expertly finished!' – Williams scores early second-half goal for Spain
Spain winger Nico Williams scores the opening goal in the Euro 2024 final against England in Berlin.
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Sarah Storey beats Heidi Gaugain at 2024 Para-cycling Road World Championships
Sarah Storey beat Paralympic rival Heidi Gaugain to win gold in the women’s C4-C5 individual time trial at the 2024 Para-cycling Road World Championships in Switzerland.
Storey, 46, completed the 29.9km course in 45 minutes 25 seconds to finish one minute 36 seconds ahead of France’s Gaugain and win her 38th Para world title.
It was a successful title defence for Storey, who won this event in Glasgow last year.
“To hit out the way I did, I was really chuffed. The course was so much fun,” Storey told BBC Sport.
“It was great and I was really glad I had the legs to put in the performance as well.”
In the women’s B individual time trial, Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy, alongside pilot Linda Kelly, were victorious. They finished in a time of 43:14.
It was a British second and third, with Sophie Unwin, alongside pilot Jenny Holl, placing second and Lora Fachie, with pilot Corrine Hall, third.
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Premiership: Sale 12-11 Harlequins – George Ford helps Sharks beat Quins
Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, Nayacalevu, R du Preez, O’Flaherty; Ford, Warr; Rodd, Cowan-Dickie, Opoku-Fordjour, Van Rhyn, Andrews, T Curry, B Curry, JL du Preez.
Replacements: Caine, Onasanya, Harper, Beaumont, Bamber, Dugdale, Thomas, Addison.
Harlequins: Halfpenny; David, Northmore, Anyanwu, Beard; J Evans, Porter; Baxter, Walker, Lamositele, Herbst, Lewies, Kenningham, Evans, Dombrandt.
Replacements: Jibulu, Els, Kerrod, Launchbury, Lamb, Care, Smith, Cleaves.
Referee: A. Leal.
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Brighton 2-2 Nottingham Forest: Andrew Crofts says Seagulls should have won
Assistant coach Andrew Crofts says Brighton “should have won” after a fiery 2-2 draw against Nottingham Forest in which both Seagulls boss Fabian Hurzeler and Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo were sent off.
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