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Ricciardo: 'Deep down I knew I had to leave Renault'

Daniel Ricciardo has been talking about how he came to the difficult decision to leave Renault and switch to McLaren for 2021 - and admits that he has no idea yet whether it was the right call or not. An episode of the latest series of the Netflix Formula 1 documentary Drive to Survive focuses on the dramatic and emotional behind-the-scenes events of last May and their season-long after-effects. The Australian revealed that he had been forced to consider a key question about what his prospects would likely be if he remained at the French works team: “Can I win with all cars finishing? "It still hurts to say this [but] the reality is no," he concluded. “Deep down I knew I had...
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