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Formula 1 journalist Joe Saward claims that Colton Herta is seen as a possible replacement for Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren.

The Australian driver came to McLaren ahead of the 2021 season as a multi-time race winner, and though he did take McLaren back to the top step of the podium with victory at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, the move so far is not quite working out as planned.

Ricciardo was consistently outperformed by team-mate Lando Norris in the first-half of that season, and though his performance level improved from there relative to Norris, it is the Brit who has delivered the goods in the early rounds of 2022.

Norris has put McLaren’s improvement on full display, bouncing back from a difficult opening round in Bahrain with a P7, P5 and then a P3 finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Ricciardo meanwhile, albeit unlucky to have been forced to retire in Saudi Arabia, was very much to blame for colliding with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at the Emilia Romagna GP, causing him to score zero.

His only points finish so far is his P6 at his home race.

Ricciardo’s contract ties him down at McLaren until the end of 2023, but in his blog, Saward identifies IndyCar star, and McLaren