The unabashed Australian with a penchant for shoeys was hugely popular but memories of his larrikin character should not overshadow his talent as a driver
Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula One career has come to an end after he was dropped by his RB team for the rest of the season.Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula One career has come to an end after he was dropped by his RB team for the rest of the season.. It was hardly unexpected, given talk of the 35-year-old’s future had dominated the build-up to last week’s race and a final flourish to record the fastest lap in Singapore carried all the airs of one last bow.
There was likely an early and astute recognition by Ricciardo of the potential boons that could be gleaned from F1’s foray onto Netflix, but the unabashed Aussie-ness he has portrayed on the world stage has carried particular weight in his homeland. Being willing to poke fun and not take oneself too seriously is a big part of the ‘larrikin’ identity the country likes to portray to the world and here was one of its finest athletes doing so, in one of sport’s most opulent and elite environments.
Ultimately, Red Bull’s reluctance to provide clarity before Singapore denied Ricciardo the sendoff he deserved. But he ended his career as a major part of F1’s story for a decade; his absence from any telling would leave it incomplete. That influence takes different forms and was delivered in different ways but it was always genuinely Ricciardo. And it was genuinely wild and wonderful.
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