“I’m definitely here to stay and I want to stay in the Red Bull family,” he told The Mirror. “Being back here, it just feels very right for me.
“I do like Helmut [Marko, Red Bull’s special advisor] and his hard approach – I’m a nice, easy-going person but his approach really does work for me. I think it gets a little more out of myself. And Christian [Horner, Red Bull team principal] I’ve always had a good relationship with. I just feel like the chemistry in the team is really good and I like that.”
When asked if he had designs on returning to the seat that he had for four years at Red Bull, Ricciardo admitted it would be his preference to rejoin the Constructors’ champions and partner Max Verstappen. But he is happy enough racing at AlphaTauri if the team decide to go another way.
“The big picture would be to get back to that team and that car one day,” he added. “But I also said that if there is not an opening then I want to stay here.”
