Daniel Ricciardo: not done with F1

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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He won’t be racing in 2023, but Daniel Ricciardo is thinking further ahead. Why is returning to Red Bull as Third Driver the best thing for a driver with 8 Grand Prix wins to his name? In this in-depth interview with Tom Clarkson, Daniel explores his decision to spend a season off the track and how he hopes it will boost his career and life outside racing. ‘I don’t feel completely done’, he says of his future in F1. ‘I think I’ll want to get back on the grid, but time will tell’. Daniel reflects on why he left Red Bull in 2018, details his struggles at McLaren and explains how age, pressure, confidence and rest affect his performance. He also lays out his to-do list for his year time from racing, including a very big ride on a very small motorbike…

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0:34.4	What's going on with Daniel Riccardo? It's a question that came up time and again in
0:39.4	the years after he left Red Bull Racing in 2018. With that team, he'd shown that he was
0:45.3	one of Formula One's most exciting talents. He'd won seven races. He moved to Renault
0:52.1	and then McLaren in the hope of winning many more. I took a little bit of a gamble
0:58.1	on myself. Obviously, the McLaren won even with the win. The win was a high and I can't
1:03.4	remove that. I can't ignore that. It's McLaren, and Riccardo, the win the Italian
1:09.5	Grand Prix. It was a challenge I took on and it didn't work out how I hoped.
1:17.7	Less than a year after that fabulous day at Monza, Daniel and McLaren decided to call
1:22.8	it quits and part company. Now he's going back to where it all started. Red Bull, as a
1:29.5	third driver. We won't see Daniel racing in 2023, but like the great driver that he is,
1:36.7	he's already thinking further ahead. In Abu Dhabi, sure, I felt a little more emotion,
1:42.1	but I don't truly believe it's my last race. Today, I can't tell you if it wasn't and
1:49.0	that's why I've chosen to take time off next year to really find that answer and not
1:53.9	make an emotional decision or a quick decision. Because of course, there were times over
1:59.1	the last little bit where I was like, yeah, I think I'm done.
2:02.8	Welcome to F1B on the grid with me, Tom Clarkson. Like many great drivers before him,
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