De Vries was ousted from his AlphaTauri seat by Crimson Bull advisor Helmut Marko on Tuesday simply 10 grands prix into his rookie season, through which he did not get on par with team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.
AlphaTauri referred to as on Crimson Bull’s third driver Ricciardo to take the Dutchman’s place, the Australian becoming a member of the Faenza squad on mortgage after impressing his father or mother staff throughout a Pirelli take a look at at Silverstone.
De Vries has since stored radio silence, however on Wednesday, eight days after his dismissal, he took to social media with a press release in response to shedding his F1 drive.
He thanked Crimson Bull and AlphaTauri for giving him an opportunity in F1, but additionally expressed his disappointment at lasting lower than half a season.
“A brief word from me… After current occasions, I made a decision to take a while for myself away from social media, which I’ll proceed to do,” De Vries wrote on Instagram.
“I wish to thank Crimson Bull and Scuderia AlphaTauri for the chance to dwell my dream. After all, it hurts that the F1 probability I dreamed of for thus lengthy ended prematurely.
“However life just isn’t a vacation spot, it’s a journey, and typically it’s a must to take the onerous street to get the place you need to be.
“I’m grateful for our privileged lives, happy with our journey and my household. That is simply one other expertise; we transfer on and look ahead to the following chapter.
“Thanks to everybody to your type and inspiring messages previously week. It’s been heart-warming to really feel your assist.”
Nyck de Vries, AlphaTauri AT04
Photograph by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Images
Final week, Marko defined he pulled the set off as a result of he noticed “no enchancment” from 28-year-old De Vries, who was anticipated to match Tsunoda immediately due to his expertise as a champion in Components 2 and Components E.
“We contracted Nyck as a result of he carried out nice at Monza final 12 months,” Marko instructed Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
“We anticipated him to be a minimum of equal to his team-mate Tsunoda this 12 months, however that was not the case. Truly, he was all the time three tenths slower than Yuki. We noticed no enchancment.
“We needed to do one thing. Why wait, and what do two extra races matter when you do not see any enchancment? Nyck is a really good man, however the pace simply wasn’t there.”
Ricciardo joins AlphaTauri from this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix after half a season on the sidelines as Crimson Bull’s third driver following his departure from McLaren on the finish of 2022.
The 34-year-old Australian mentioned he was excited to make his F1 comeback after taking a while off following his punishing two-year McLaren stint.
“There was no query that I used to be going to say sure,” Ricciardo instructed F1 final week.
“As soon as I would accomplished a couple of sim classes I began feeling like myself once more. And that sort of introduced me again to regular Daniel, the place I used to be falling again in love and able to go once more.”