Eight wins, 32 podium finishes, greater than 250 begins and 1,329 factors scored, together with hours of Drive To Survive footage that added context to his “wild and great” journey.
Ricciardo’s personal suggestion of calling the present ‘Daniel To Survive’ may need taken it just a bit too far, however there’s no denying his influence throughout the six seasons to this point.
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“It’s the top of an period, isn’t it?” Homosexual-Rees sums up. “I believe it was only a actually blissful union. We’ve that with quite a lot of drivers now, which is nice. We’re not attempting to exchange him. We’ll miss him on a private, skilled and sporting stage, however nothing lasts ceaselessly – for any of us!
“If it’s the finish, it’s unhappy. We’ll be unhappy to lose him in that capability, like we have been unhappy to lose Guenther Steiner, in a means. However he’s a younger man, he’s acquired a whole lot of time forward of him. Who is aware of the place it’ll take him? I’m certain he’ll have a fairly wealthy and storied life going ahead.
“He’s going to be round in some capability… I wouldn’t essentially thoughts buying and selling locations with Danny Ric going ahead, are you aware what I imply? He’ll have a whole lot of enjoyable!”
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