McLaren group principal Andreas Seidl has stated he’s prepared to shoulder among the accountability for Daniel Ricciardo’s battle to safe outcomes previously two seasons, which finally led to the group’s choice to terminate the Australian’s contract one yr early.

On Wednesday, McLaren confirmed Ricciardo’s departure on the finish of the season following a “mutual” settlement between group and driver.

Ricciardo’s exit is anticipated to make manner for the arrival of Components 2 champion Oscar Piastri, who has a deal in place with McLaren for subsequent yr however is ready on approval from the FIA’s contract recognition board (CRB), which is ready to rule on whether or not Alpine has a stronger declare to his providers for subsequent season.

Seidl refused to verify the id of Ricciardo’s alternative throughout a press convention on Wednesday, however stated the choice to make a change in McLaren’s driver line-up was outcomes pushed.

“I believe now we have each commented many occasions about challenges we had on Daniel’s facet of the storage concerning extracting the identical efficiency the automotive as on Lando’s facet,” Seidl stated.

“Daniel has stated many occasions that he simply by no means felt totally comfy in our automotive, particularly when it was about pushing the automotive to absolutely the restrict. That was, ultimately, inflicting the lap time distinction to Lando.

“On the identical time, now we have know-how that tells us Lando is an excellent driver, so he [Ricciardo] was up in opposition to among the best ones within the paddock. This ultimately led us to the choice.

“He simply did not get it to work ultimately. For a driver with the ability to extract the efficiency from the automotive is a group effort between the motive force and the group, so I simply need to be clear as nicely that I totally take the accountability of being in control of the group that could not discover the magic with the intention to discover these percentages that we had been seeing occasionally.

“That is why on the finish we got here to the conclusion that we go our separate methods subsequent yr.”

Requested concerning the awkward timing of the announcement forward of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix and earlier than Piastri’s deal is finalised, Seidl stated it was higher to verify Ricciardo was leaving than go away the topic open to hypothesis within the second half of the season.

“From our standpoint, it is essential to have readability and transparency,” he added. “As soon as a call is made, I believe it is best to announce it and transfer on. Sure, will probably be essential now, immediately and within the subsequent two days, and Daniel will do the identical, to reply all of the questions concerning immediately.

“However then clearly we need to concentrate on the Spa race weekend after which the ultimate 9 races of the season collectively, as a result of the target we’re having along with Daniel, is to make it possible for we end our time collectively on a excessive.”

McLaren CEO Zak Brown revealed he was prepared to discover a area for Ricciardo on the model’s IndyCar group, however that the Australian made it clear that he solely wished to race in F1 subsequent yr.

“Sure, we spoke about that,” Brown stated. “We do have quite a lot of racing actions. That being stated, he is very targeted on F1. So after all the door will at all times be open right here at McLaren, however I imagine that he has an actual need to proceed in F1.”

Brown additionally revealed that the choice to drop Ricciardo was the toughest he had made since taking on the management of McLaren in late 2016.

“As Andreas simply stated, Daniel is an excellent individual and an ideal individual to be round,” Brown stated. “We have had many laughs. We have sprayed champagne collectively and it’s totally private. So immediately is a really unhappy day that issues did not work out as we hoped they’d. I will look again with some very fond recollections, some enjoyable occasions collectively on and off the observe.

“We’re in a enterprise, the place Andreas and all people right here at McLaren must concentrate on final efficiency. We hope and need Daniel the very best. There’s completely no sick will between us. It is all very amicable.

“He too has had fun at McLaren and he is younger, so we hope to see him in a aggressive racing automotive and one in every of as of late, we’d see him being a ache for us on the race observe and that will probably be enjoyable as a result of he is an ideal competitor.”