The Australian returned to F1 race action from the Hungarian Grand Prix in July, replacing the ousted Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri, having lost his McLaren drive to Oscar Piastri at the end of 2022.
Beginning his third weekend with the Red Bull-owned squad at Zandvoort, Ricciardo’s Friday was prematurely halted when he crashed just under 20 minutes into FP2.
The eight-time grand prix winner appeared to have been caught out by the crash for McLaren’s Piastri ahead of him at Turn 3, and speared into the outside barrier.
Ricciardo initially complained on the radio to his team that he had hurt his left hand and kept it close to his chest as he gingerly extracted himself from his stricken AlphaTauri.
Source: Autosport