Jacques Villeneuve insists Daniel Ricciardo should not be surprised that he hasn’t been picked up by an F1 team yet, believing that almost half of his career has been “terrible.” Ricciardo’s contract with McLaren was terminated a year early after a string of poor results this season, with compatriot and last year’s F2 champion Oscar Piastri replacing him . Ricciardo, 33, is now looking for his sixth F1 team and has not ruled out the idea of taking a one-year sabbatical from the sport after 12 straight seasons. Yet 1997 world champion Villeneuve was blunt in his assessment of Ricciardo’s chances of finding a new team, criticising his performance in recent years and stating that the modern cars “don’t seem to suit his driving style.” “He had two terrible years at Renault and two even more terrible years at McLaren,” Villeneuve told F1 TV. “That’s four years. Almost half of his Formula 1 career was bad. Alpine have no reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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