2024 Daniel Ricciardo

At the season’s fourth round, he and Verstappen had been battling all race until it came to an explosive end on lap 40 when the Red Bull pair collided down the start-finish straight. Verstappen, who had just overcutted Ricciardo for fourth, made a late move to defend the inside and his team-mate locked daniel ricciardo funny moments up before hitting the back of the sister RB14. After recording thee prior podium finishes at the Monaco Grand Prix – including a heartbreaking second place in 2016 – Ricciardo finally got his Monaco victory in 2018. As is typical in Ricciardo’s case, the win came in spite of difficult circumstances.

For most, the ending comes more painfully, when you start to realize — or finally accept — that your time has passed. "I've done my very best to buy him as much time in the car to allow him to deliver, so otherwise he would have been out of the car after Barcelona," Horner added. "So I did say give Jacques a call every time every grand prix, for the rest of the year, because whatever he said, it definitely worked." "And it definitely fired him up, because the way he drove the car that weekend, he grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and put together a very strong race weekend. Perhaps this desire was enhanced, too, by a couple of radio messages from Norris during the race, when he implied that he could go faster than Ricciardo, and wondered in a not-especially-indirect way whether the team should let him try to do exactly that. Instead, he struggled with the car through the first half of the year, and was generally outshone by team-mate Lando Norris, who has been one of the stars of the season.
For those uninitiated, this is where champagne is poured into the shoe and then downed by the perhaps unfortunate recipient.

The Australian and London-born Thai collided before Turn 3 on the opening lap at Suzuka when Ricciardo failed to see Albon in his mirrors. Had Red Bull not botched their pit stop, Ricciardo would have likely overcut Hamilton to get the lead of the 2016 Monaco GP back. Instead, he finished the race 7.252 seconds from the winner, and Ricciardo could not hide the pain on the podium which haunted the Australian. He described 2021 as the “toughest” of his career and admitted he’s not “a good loser” because losing fills him with stress. Ricciardo has been very open across the previous three seasons of DTS, and that doesn’t change in this edition, even when times are tough – as we see him fight the biggest battle of all, which is with himself.
Photo by Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesThroughout his Formula 1 career, Ricciardo has rarely been involved in or caused big crashes with other drivers. But the fallout of his crash with Max Verstappen whilst teammates at Red Bull in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2018 made it one of Ricciardo’s worst on-track moments. And yet, for about four and a half minutes on Sunday in Singapore, Ricciardo took back the spotlight.

By adopting this mindset, we can turn even the most challenging setbacks into valuable opportunities for self-improvement. Ricciardo is an avid fan of rock music, and before each race, he listens to AC/DC's hit song "Thunderstruck" to get pumped up and in the right mindset for the race. "Thank you for the wins, smiles, songs , you will always be a special part of the Red Bull family. After three seasons with Red Bull's junior team, then named Toro Rosso, Ricciardo drove under Horner's leadership for five seasons at Red Bull. Yet despite Verstappen’s late move causing their collision, Ricciardo felt Red Bull backed the Dutchman over him regarding the incident.
The Silver Arrows drivers, despite being title rivals, also agreed to swap positions in P2 and P3 with Rosberg’s lack of pace holding Hamilton up. It all appeared set to see Ricciardo stand on his home podium for the first time, as well, after finishing the Australian GP in P2 for Red Bull. But his joy was quickly smashed into pieces on debut for the team from Milton Keynes as Ricciardo was disqualified from the Australian GP. Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty ImagesThe 2014 season proved to be dominated by Mercedes after Formula 1 introduced the 1.6L V6 turbo-hybrid power unit. But the first race of the era only saw 14 of the 22 cars take the finish at the Australian Grand Prix following a wealth of engine issues up and down the grid.
Following that, Ricciardo was embroiled in multiple battles and came home for 14th place. Anirban Aly Mandal is an F1 writer at The SportsRush, with over 1000 articles under his belt, Anirban's love for F1 started when he discovered a copy of F on his computer. With over half a decade's worth of time spent religiously following the sport, he’s dived deep into the world of motorsports. However, Anirban's expertise goes beyond just writing - he has also written several academic papers focused on the domain of motorsports and the law. His passion for the sport is so immense that he aspires to work as a legal advisor in the most prestigious racing series in the world someday.

However, following a red flag, he had a poor second start, which dropped him down to tenth place. At the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, he had a chance of a podium after Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, and Sergio Pérez all collided in the first lap of the race. But a mistimed second pit stop caused Ricciardo to be overtaken, ending the race in fifth  place.
A crash during practice left him with a broken hand, and questions about his future in F1 arose. While he’s had a remarkable career full of highs, this moment highlighted the brutal physical and mental toll that F1 takes on drivers, leaving many wondering what the next chapter holds for Ricciardo. Ahead of the following campaign, Ricciardo announced that he will join McLaren at the end of 2020 meaning he contested just two seasons for Renault. Although his second year there was much better – Ricciardo finished fifth in the championship with two podiums – the move to Renault will perhaps be his lasting legacy as it actually regressed his career instead of kicking it on. Ricciardo finished the season with 92 points in eighth place in the championship, three points behind teammate Daniil Kvyat. He finished the opening race at the Australian Grand Prix in sixth, the RB11 seemingly uncompetitive as he finished a lap down.

The tide of tributes flowing from fans and peers speaks to the imprint that he has had on the grid, not just as a driver but also as a personality. In August 2022, McLaren and Ricciardo terminated his contract a year early, by mutual agreement. Following qualifying of the Japanese Grand Prix, Ricciardo announced that he would not be on the grid for the 2023 Formula One season. Ricciardo went on to finish in 5th place, his best performance of the season after qualifying in 16th, at the Singapore Grand Prix.