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Ricciardo confirms Ferrari talks before Sainz deal

Daniel Ricciardo has confirmed that he was in talks about joining Ferrari up to the point that they signed Carlos Sainz for 2021. After Sebastian Vettel announced that 2020 will be his last season with Ferrari, both Ricciardo and Sainz were the drivers most strongly linked with that second seat alongside Charles Leclerc. Ultimately they went with Sainz for 2021 while Ricciardo will leave Renault to take the Spaniard's McLaren seat. But Ricciardo confirmed that he was also in talks with Ferrari, but he expects Sainz to be a 'good fit' for the team. “There have been discussions already from a few years back. And that continued all the way through to now. So yeah, I won’t deny that,”...
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