Daniel Ricciardo’s famous beaming smile was perhaps bigger than ever after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which wrapped up the 2022 season. His incredible smile was due to the Australian being announced by Red Bull as their new development driver for 2023, with the 33-year-old returning to his ‘home’. Ricciardo has endured four challenging years
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Following on from two challenging years at McLaren, both physically and mentally, Daniel Ricciardo has opened up on how it feels to return “home” to Red Bull after four years away. Leaving Red Bull for Renault at the end of 2018 was always a huge gamble by the 33-year-old, who was walking away from a
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2022 has perhaps not been the season McLaren would’ve been hoping for following a very successful 2021 campaign, with the Woking-based side having certainly returned to the midfield this year. After challenging the frontrunners at the vast majority of the races in 2021, McLaren were very rarely capable of challenging the top three, let alone the top
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The future at Red Bull is up in the air at the moment, with a cost cap penalty to deal with next season and a driver pairing of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez which is tense at best. Verstappen sensationally refused to follow team orders in Brazil, after Red Bull asked him to allow his
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The rumours surrounding Daniel Ricciardo’s future in Formula 1 have been circling around the paddock ever since it was announced earlier in the year that McLaren would be replacing the 33-year-old with Oscar Piastri for next season. First it was rumoured that the Australian would drop further down the grid to race for Haas or
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For the time being, Daniel Ricciardo’s time as a Formula 1 driver is done, with the 33-year-old taking a sabbatical in 2023 following a disastrous two-year spell at McLaren. Apart from his incredible victory at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix, there has been very little for Ricciardo to celebrate in the last two years, who
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It’s safe to say life as a Formula 1 driver hasn’t started brilliantly for Oscar Piastri, with the new McLaren driver having stopped on-track during the post-season Abu Dhabi test. Photos have been released showing the Australian driver jumping out of his stopped McLaren at Turn Seven, which, of course, is the right-hander that comes
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Alpine managed to hold on to fourth place in the constructors’ championship despite Fernando Alonso being forced to retire from yet another race in the season finale in Abu Dhabi. McLaren had managed to push the French team all the way until the end, however their driver pairing of Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo just
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The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is usually emotional, with some drivers retiring, some departing for different teams, and others losing their place in Formula 1. This year was no different as we saw fan favourites depart the sport in the form of Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Mick Schumacher and Nicholas Latifi. While Vettel has bid
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Despite the 2022 Formula 1 season being officially complete, ‘silly season’ is somewhat still not over, with two drivers waiting to sign deals with new teams. The first of those is Daniel Ricciardo, who completed his last race for McLaren on Sunday at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where he ended his two-year spell at
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