Daniel Joseph Ricciardo is an Italian-Australian racing driver. He is currently competing in Formula One, under the Australian flag, for McLaren. He made his debut at the 2011 British Grand Prix with the HRT team as part of a deal with Red Bull Racing. He joined Toro Rosso in 2012 full time after the team changed its driver lineup and drove a Ferrari-powered car for them in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, he was promoted to Red Bull as a replacement for the retired Mark Webber alongside multiple time world champion Sebastian Vettel. He finished third in the championship with his first three Formula One wins, in Canada, Hungary, and Belgium. He has since added victories at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2017 and the Chinese and
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Daniel Joseph Ricciardo is an Italian-Australian racing driver. He is currently competing in Formula One, under the Australian flag, for McLaren. He made his debut at the 2011 British Grand Prix with the HRT team as part of a deal with Red Bull Racing. He joined Toro Rosso in 2012 full time after the team changed its driver lineup and drove a Ferrari-powered car for them in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, he was promoted to Red Bull as a replacement for the retired Mark Webber alongside multiple time world champion Sebastian Vettel. He finished third in the championship with his first three Formula One wins, in Canada, Hungary, and Belgium. He has since added victories at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in 2017 and the Chinese and Monaco Grands Prix in 2018. After 2018, he signed with Renault and has raced for them in the 2019 and 2020 seasons. He will join McLaren for the 2021 and 2022 Formula One seasons alongside Lando Norris. He supports the AFL’s West Coast Eagles and was the club’s number-one ticket holder in 2015 and 2016. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, to Italian parents of Ficarra born father Giuseppe and Australian born mother Grace, with parents originally from Calabria. He pronounces his surname \”Ricardo\” instead of the Italian pronunciation \”Rit-chi-ardo\”, attributing this to the way it was usually pronounced growing up in Australia and by his family. He adopted the number 3 as his racing number in honour of NASCAR Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt, and is often referred to as ‘the honey badger’ in reference to his racing style, explaining how it is supposed to be the most fearless animal in the animal kingdom.
He also has a sister; Michelle. His earliest memories of motorsports were of his own father racing at the nearby Barbagallo Raceway in Wanneroo. In 2005, he entered the Western Australian Formula Ford championship driving a 15-year-old Van Diemen, finishing eighth by season’s end. The following year, he won a scholarship into the Formula BMW Asian championship with Eurasia Motorsport. During his début season, he took two victories and also achieved a pole position at Zhuhai. At the end of 2007, he switched categories to Formula Renault with RP Motorsport, entering the Italian and European championships of the European Formula Renault category. He stayed in the European championships for a second year in 2008, entering 14 races to the Western and European European championships. He failed to score a point in his handful of starts in his first year in the series. In August that year he was given an outing with Motaworld Racing to race at the eighth meeting of the FormulaBM UK championship. Despite retiring from the first race, he recovered to finish eighth in the final race and took points in his only entry in the British championship. In the second year he finished fifth position, 14 seconds off winner Christian Vietoris.
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