‘If you can’t cut it, go home’: Former F1 World Champion savages Daniel Ricciardo

Former F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve has savaged Daniel Ricciardo, asking why the Australian is still racing in Formula 1.

The 1997 Championship winner made the comments to Sky Sports ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Giles Villeneuve — named after Jacques’ father — in Montreal.

“Why’s he still in F1? Why?” Villeneuve, 53, said during Friday’s practice sessions.

“We are hearing the same thing now for the last four or five years. ‘We have to make the car better for him’. Sorry, it’s been five years of that. No, you are in F1.

“Maybe you make that effort for Lewis Hamilton whose won multiple championships. You don’t make that effort for a driver that can’t cut it.

“If you can’t cut it, go home, there’s someone else to take your place. That’s how it’s always been in racing, it’s the pinnacle of the sport.

“There’s no reason to keep going and to keep finding excuses.”

Ricciardo has not finished higher than 12th spot at any of this year’s eight races for Red Bull’s sister team, Racing Bulls.