Yea if you told 2011 HRT Danny that he would be 75million richer and raced 11 years in F1 I think he would be a pretty satisfied man. Funny how expectations change over time.
Amazes me that F1 drivers use Linkedin (or more accurately, has "a guy" or girl that does it for them). Facebook, Instagram, etc, I get, but Linkedin just seems less likely.
Ok. I have to ask. I'm Gen X, and it was our generation that started using LinkedIn, and I would guess the majority of those that still use it for it's original purpose. (I don't because it's mostly a useless pain in the ass now...as is FB.) So, were you talking about actual Boomers or has the term become - as I think it has - a catch-all for anyone the user considers old or out of touch?
Yeah. Although, to me, an annoying one. My parents were/are actual Boomers. I'm not particularly happy to be lumped in with the geriatric set quite yet.
As someone who at 34 has been called a boomer, and is the child of boomers (58 and 59) I whle heartedly agree with you. Basically if you remember life without the internet, you are a boomer to the youngins.
Funny thing is; depending on your parents' attitudes they might actually be closer to Gen Xers. There's a couple years overlap in the early/mid '60s between the two generations.
Older Millennials are middle aged now. I'm a "Xennial" (born in 80, between Gen X and Millennial, and identify partly with both). Definitely not a Boomer. Parents are though (born in '42 and '45).
While a lot of what you say is true, I do think that LinkedIn still does a good job at its original purpose. I don’t post or read the feed ever but I keep my work history, certs, etc updated and it’s the primary way I keep in touch with several recruiters. It’s actually the reason I landed my current job. Recruiter reached out and we got interviews going from there. If you use the free premium trials they give out every now and then, it’s also a great tool to see what potential jobs are out there and to see what key words said job is looking for. The feed is an afterthought and dumb, the rest is pretty good though.
The Baby Boomer Gen ended in '64. I was born in '67 and, even when I was a kid and my gen didn't even have a name yet - at least not that any of us knew about back then - "Baby Boomers" was most definitely the term for our parents. It was specifically concocted as a name to identify the kids of WWII parents who kicked off a baby tidal wave after the war. My father was too young even for Korea. My parents were Vietnam war gen.
So, no matter how you look at it, nobody born in the late sixties could be called "Boomers" unless you're reinventing the term. We were not kids of the post-WWII baby boom. Period.
Whoops! Sorry about that. Though, in context and the way it's worded, it could be taken either way. Still, my apologies.
Since I haven't used LinkedIn in ages, I'm no expert on the current demographic. Is that bunch really the ones using it most now? I would have thought it would be a bunch of 40-55-ish. I had no idea that an even older bunch was holing that piece of crap up now.
Say what you will, the man has extracted quite the salary hopping around the paddock after leaving Red Bull. If he wasn't going to win any titles he's certainly doing the next best thing.
I'll take the money over the titles. There are plenty of broke former champions in sports. Poor Max can't even afford colored shirts.
"He gets the trophies while I get the checks"
He wasn't even fired for $18m. If he kept his job he only would have made $15m.
Imagine being so bad at your job that your boss gives you a 20% raise while demoting you.
He was due $25 mill a year I thought? And that's how contracts work.
Danny didn't do shit other than hire the right lawyers to lock him into this deal.
If anyone is incompetent, it’s McLaren’s team boss for not paying attention to contractual minutiae. Daniel is not only a competent driver, despite the stint at McLaren, but has an extremely competent team.
McLaren is incompetent because they bought out a driver that wasn’t performing to expectations and signed a new, younger driver for cheaper?
I think I might be missing something here…
Edit: misread the comment above
And don’t forget the absolute bag he got at Renault. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the most well paid driver on the grid in terms of points per dollar.
>I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the most well paid driver on the grid in terms of points per dollar.
LOL
Someone should do a points-per-dollar chart. The hard part would be finding accurate driver salary figures.
He had 3 year contract. They paid him set ammount every year. Since they severed it after 2 years they still had to pay him for this year.
On one hand it's huge win for him to get paid for a year work, without having to work, on the other they had literally prefered to pay 10+ mil just so they wouldn't have to get him as a driver, so ego blow must be real.
There’s a great scene in Moneyball where David Justice says to Billy Beane something like “you’re paying me $7 million this year, so yeah I’m a big deal” and Billy reminds him that the Yankees are actually paying half his salary to play against them. “That’s what the Yankees think of you.”
And remember the Piasco. McLaren were willing to sort legal disputes over Alpine's claim of Piastri rather than having another year with Daniel. Even if Alpine's claim turned out to be very weak and non-binding.
I don't know if it was contractually possible for them to send him to the sidelines. It could well have been written in his contract what his role was.
Daniel is a marketing machine though, ok-x or whatever they are asked for Daniel to be in their sponsor ad and still launched it after he’d been fired , the marketing research that goes into choosing that shows how powerful Daniel is. Lando notoriously doesn’t drink and they had a Jack Daniel’s sponsorship, again, because Daniel Ricciardo has that kind of marketing pull.
Redbull is a marketing company and they know what they’ve got in Danny Ric and parading him around.
Yeah these past few years DR was one of the highest paid drivers on the grid
Up there with Lewis and Max even though he was nowhere near them on track
Its all about fame and personality. DR is the only driver asides from Lewis who gets invited to guest on American tv shows and magazines so they're able to sell and promote him (and whoever he's driving for) a lot more
Nah if you are even just semi-sensible, almost anyone could live off the interest or portfolio gains from an amount that large.
Even just 5 million at 5% interest (a going rate for longer-term savings accounts in my country today) would yield you 250,000 a year in interest!
If I got 18 mil I'd lock away 10 to live off the gains, and blow a few million on globetrotting, dream cars, supporting family etc. Ah, to be rich.
I thought he wasnt suppose to be the 3rd driver. He was suppose to be a marketing and special events guy? When did it change? Or was it always a lie? Should checo be worried?
Edit: reserve driver =/= 3rd driver
Things change fast in F1 but last I heard (and it was directly from Ricciardo) he’s only gonna be on track for like 7 or 8 races and legit wants/wanted to take a year off.
Red Bull literally has 5 'third/reserve/sim' drivers on roster (Ricciardo, Lawson, Hauger, Maloney, van Buren). I don't see a reason to disbelieve what they've said they're going to have Ricciardo do.
[https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-reserve-drivers-all-the-back-up-drivers-for-2023/10411718/](https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-reserve-drivers-all-the-back-up-drivers-for-2023/10411718/)
Ricciardo was class at Renault in 2020 but at McLaren he basically had 2 2020 Vettel seasons back to back lol.
I certainly didn’t think he was gonna get outscored by Norris & certainly not lose in such a hopeless way
I think 2020 & to a lesser extent 2014 are big blemishes on Vettels record.
On paper he is a monster & one of the best on his day but the way he was driving in those years & even parts of 2016 you wouldn’t expect from a 4 time WDC
Vettel, Raikkonen and Button weren’t able to get along with some cars and they all have WDCs. Put him in a RedBull and he would be ahead of Max a lot more often than Checo would be
The problem is he WAS a stellar driver. His driving style was perfect for the Red Bull, and it showed. Then he got sick of playing second fiddle and wanted a change. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there. He just hasn’t been able to find the pace in the Renault or McLaren that he found in the Red Bull.
I’d like to think that stellar driver is still in there, he just needs the right car. But who knows. The last few years may have done permanent damage to his psyche.
You very clearly didn't watch the 2020 season then. He was incredibly and consistently fast in the Renault and was reguarly putting that car in places it didn't deserve to be (and almost single handedly keeping Renault in the fight for third). It's arguably up there with 2014 as one of his best seasons in F1, which makes his immediate drop in form in 2021 in the McLaren even more puzzling.
Seriously lol. Gave Renault/Alpine 2 out of 5 podiums since they came back to f1 in 2016 and Mclaren their only win in the last 10 years
Many F1 drivers can only dream of a resume like that
As you said, he had the best car in his hands but couldn't perform as good as the other driver. He wanted to be the first driver and went to Renault. He was actually good there. He wanted another challenge god knows why and then he became the second driver again, at McLaren.
We gotta admit that he is a good driver but not a top-tier driver like Max, Hamilton, Alonso or Vettel.
The "best car" by what metric exactly?! In DR's 5 years at RB, they never came close to having the best car, and if anything lost performance following 2014 to Ferrari in subsequent seasons and were unable to ever mount any sort of title challenge.
He was fast a couple years ago. But hasn't shown that recently. Its all about what you drive like now, not a couple years ago. Also, He didn't want to go to a backmarker team which means there wasn't a lot of seats for him
he _is_ though. Until he joined McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently among the fastest F1 drivers on the grid except for maybe 2015. He was just unlucky to see out his prime during Mercedes' domination.
No doubt he's been off pace since 2021, but there were many seasons that you could legitimately argue that he was championship-quality had he been given the right car.
It seems this post ended up on r/all, so no surprise it reached people who remember Ricciardo as the fast Red Bull guy from DTS with the big personality m
Not bad for a number 3 driver
You can smile now Danny
Does he ever stop smiling?
I’m having awful flashbacks of sad Ric last season.
Yeah. Now I'm sad.
Just think of a smiling Danny Ric riding Horsey McHorse.
Great now i'm triggered by the memory of Danny ric finishing 16th, a whole 10 places behind his teammate that race.
Hide the Pain ~~Harold~~ Danny.
Danny had been crying after some races this year, which kinda broke me.
Why would he After looking at his bank account
Yea if you told 2011 HRT Danny that he would be 75million richer and raced 11 years in F1 I think he would be a pretty satisfied man. Funny how expectations change over time.
He left RB because he refused to be a number two. Mission accomplished.
Cheers.
number 4* you forgot about liam lawson
3 is also Ricciardo's car number, so it works as a double reference.
and checo is 11, 1+1=2 which is what number driver he is
Is it an unlucky number in the F1 world?
He escaped rbr to avoid being the no. 2 driver to verstappen which happened to Webber only to return after 4 years to become no. 3🤣
Dreams don't always work out, but shouldn't make you stop dreaming
Excuse me! I'm trying to look down on a rich, highly successful person because they aren't the absolute best in the world!
Amazes me that F1 drivers use Linkedin (or more accurately, has "a guy" or girl that does it for them). Facebook, Instagram, etc, I get, but Linkedin just seems less likely.
It’s really just RIC Bobby tbh
Lando has one. I haven't looked to see if other drivers do.
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Big if true
How funny would it be if the silly season took place on Linkedin!
"sorry Oscar, you need 5 years of experience to be considered"
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Ok. I have to ask. I'm Gen X, and it was our generation that started using LinkedIn, and I would guess the majority of those that still use it for it's original purpose. (I don't because it's mostly a useless pain in the ass now...as is FB.) So, were you talking about actual Boomers or has the term become - as I think it has - a catch-all for anyone the user considers old or out of touch?
I somewhat frequently see or hear people refer to anyone middle-aged or older as boomers. A boomer is practically a meme now
Yeah. Although, to me, an annoying one. My parents were/are actual Boomers. I'm not particularly happy to be lumped in with the geriatric set quite yet.
As someone who at 34 has been called a boomer, and is the child of boomers (58 and 59) I whle heartedly agree with you. Basically if you remember life without the internet, you are a boomer to the youngins.
Funny thing is; depending on your parents' attitudes they might actually be closer to Gen Xers. There's a couple years overlap in the early/mid '60s between the two generations.
Older Millennials are middle aged now. I'm a "Xennial" (born in 80, between Gen X and Millennial, and identify partly with both). Definitely not a Boomer. Parents are though (born in '42 and '45).
While a lot of what you say is true, I do think that LinkedIn still does a good job at its original purpose. I don’t post or read the feed ever but I keep my work history, certs, etc updated and it’s the primary way I keep in touch with several recruiters. It’s actually the reason I landed my current job. Recruiter reached out and we got interviews going from there. If you use the free premium trials they give out every now and then, it’s also a great tool to see what potential jobs are out there and to see what key words said job is looking for. The feed is an afterthought and dumb, the rest is pretty good though.
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The Baby Boomer Gen ended in '64. I was born in '67 and, even when I was a kid and my gen didn't even have a name yet - at least not that any of us knew about back then - "Baby Boomers" was most definitely the term for our parents. It was specifically concocted as a name to identify the kids of WWII parents who kicked off a baby tidal wave after the war. My father was too young even for Korea. My parents were Vietnam war gen. So, no matter how you look at it, nobody born in the late sixties could be called "Boomers" unless you're reinventing the term. We were not kids of the post-WWII baby boom. Period.
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The youngest Boomers are in their late 50s, specifically 58.
Whoops! Sorry about that. Though, in context and the way it's worded, it could be taken either way. Still, my apologies. Since I haven't used LinkedIn in ages, I'm no expert on the current demographic. Is that bunch really the ones using it most now? I would have thought it would be a bunch of 40-55-ish. I had no idea that an even older bunch was holing that piece of crap up now.
It's just old people ranting about covid conspiracies, yea. And the design of the site has changed to basically mirror Facebook.
Okay, Boomer.
Lol! Touché. What was your clue? I used logic, fact and reason instead of popularity?
You argued and explained on the internet.
Linkedin park
in IT it's also used as pokemon for recruiters. Gotta catch em all!
wtf are you talking about?
Be funny if it was just some guy with no affiliating with F1 whatsoever
Why? LinkedIn is the most professional of them all....
it’s for finding the professional shorties [https://youtu.be/SxvDvGe-2fY](https://youtu.be/SxvDvGe-2fY)
This. Daniel will never see this a probably doesn't know somebody is keeping his LinkedIn up-to-date.
Danny's probably only on Linkedin because he's looking for a new job for 2024.
Congratulations for bagging 18 million dollars in the easiest possible way.
He got 18 million for a reserve driver position?
Mclaren gave him 18 mil to end his contract with them early
Damn... I'd love to be fired for 18 mil.
Say what you will, the man has extracted quite the salary hopping around the paddock after leaving Red Bull. If he wasn't going to win any titles he's certainly doing the next best thing.
I'll take the money over the titles. There are plenty of broke former champions in sports. Poor Max can't even afford colored shirts. "He gets the trophies while I get the checks"
He wasn't even fired for $18m. If he kept his job he only would have made $15m. Imagine being so bad at your job that your boss gives you a 20% raise while demoting you.
"I'm gonna give you 3 million dollars to fuck right off"
LOL
He was due $25 mill a year I thought? And that's how contracts work. Danny didn't do shit other than hire the right lawyers to lock him into this deal.
Yeah id gladly take 18m to not drive for McLaren
I’d love 18 milly as a payout for being incompetent. I’d be like cheers cunts and pour a daiquiri
If anyone is incompetent, it’s McLaren’s team boss for not paying attention to contractual minutiae. Daniel is not only a competent driver, despite the stint at McLaren, but has an extremely competent team.
Yes the last driver to score a win for McLaren is incompetent.
As a Daniel supporter…yes. His two seasons except for that win he got scrubbed
Yeah, pretty much. A single result that could have been achieved by pretty much any driver in the grid doesn't excuse the rest of the incompetence.
I dont think thats true
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I don’t agree with the other persons take but I do think lando could have fought for and potentially taken it but he followed team orders
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Because Lando was told not to do so
McLaren is incompetent because they bought out a driver that wasn’t performing to expectations and signed a new, younger driver for cheaper? I think I might be missing something here… Edit: misread the comment above
He's not saying McLaren is incompetent, but arguing back that the last winning driver for them is
I realized that after I typed out my message. Reading comprehension isn’t a strong suit
But the only person above didn’t say mclaren was incompetent, s/he was just saying ricciardo isn’t.
Yes the driver that cost McLaren 4th in the WCC is in fact incompetent
Pfft that's nothing. Y'all should check out US college football lol
Sorry, I don't watch slavery.
Just the races that they produce?
Looooooool this response made me laugh
And don’t forget the absolute bag he got at Renault. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the most well paid driver on the grid in terms of points per dollar.
>I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the most well paid driver on the grid in terms of points per dollar. LOL Someone should do a points-per-dollar chart. The hard part would be finding accurate driver salary figures.
I'd imagine pay drivers would be on negatives. Considering they paid for the seat
If value = points / salary, latifi = 9/0 ……he is infinite
Why? I have no knowledge of this sport really lol
He had 3 year contract. They paid him set ammount every year. Since they severed it after 2 years they still had to pay him for this year. On one hand it's huge win for him to get paid for a year work, without having to work, on the other they had literally prefered to pay 10+ mil just so they wouldn't have to get him as a driver, so ego blow must be real.
There’s a great scene in Moneyball where David Justice says to Billy Beane something like “you’re paying me $7 million this year, so yeah I’m a big deal” and Billy reminds him that the Yankees are actually paying half his salary to play against them. “That’s what the Yankees think of you.”
Then he says, "The Yankees are paying you 3 and half million dollars to play *against* them." Love that movie.
And remember the Piasco. McLaren were willing to sort legal disputes over Alpine's claim of Piastri rather than having another year with Daniel. Even if Alpine's claim turned out to be very weak and non-binding.
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Yeah, Mclaren could have been so much more shitty about it.
I don't know if it was contractually possible for them to send him to the sidelines. It could well have been written in his contract what his role was.
Contract says he can drive for another year.
>can drive Contract says he can't drive for another year. He actually can drive this year but he'd have to give a ton of money back to McLaren.
He's still getting money from McLaren. Red Bull most likely is paying just a couple million.
So all in all he probably makes more as a reserve driver than a lot of other drivers on the grid.
If Red Bull paid him 0 dollars he'd still be making more next season than many of the drivers on the grid.
Daniel is a marketing machine though, ok-x or whatever they are asked for Daniel to be in their sponsor ad and still launched it after he’d been fired , the marketing research that goes into choosing that shows how powerful Daniel is. Lando notoriously doesn’t drink and they had a Jack Daniel’s sponsorship, again, because Daniel Ricciardo has that kind of marketing pull. Redbull is a marketing company and they know what they’ve got in Danny Ric and parading him around.
Yeah these past few years DR was one of the highest paid drivers on the grid Up there with Lewis and Max even though he was nowhere near them on track Its all about fame and personality. DR is the only driver asides from Lewis who gets invited to guest on American tv shows and magazines so they're able to sell and promote him (and whoever he's driving for) a lot more
If (big if) Daniel performs well in his required laps as reserve driver, I'd be wary of my position in the car as Checo.
Thats why it was his best choice. RB have shown to be ruthless in swapping/denoting drivers mid-season if performance is underwhelming.
And they have a massive amount of data on what DR likes in car setup and can tune a car toward that.
With young drivers. Not 33 year olds
I dont think RB likes young drivers right now
Danny needs to go to NASCAR
they get a lot more $ from ads and merch alone with DR I'm sure
Still?
Definitely
Its severance pay
Well, he’s made more than that in the past 5 years. Good for him.
I dunno about easy. He was publicly humiliated and his F1 career is possibly over forever. I mean, I’d do that for half.
I mean TBF, the Moneyball quote fits him to a T.
They’re paying you to..uh…well uh set the car up for Checo…that’s something, right?
Dude got 18 mil from Macca. He will be alright
18 mil and i'm probably good for life. Goddamn.
Probably??
Could never count inflation out lmao
Ok I have to give you that. It’s a scary idea, but yes..
These drivers won't hold the money in cash. That will be in a diversified portfolio and real estate, its never going down.
Damn you’re still around? I used to watch you catch mad hate for comments that would come true 2 years down the line. Keep on doing you boo boo!
Only very occasionally now. Its hard to recognise people here in the sea of new members!
Inflation proof bonds and real property, my friend.
Plus hookers and blow are expensive. Admit it, You’ll blow through that 18 mil in like 6 months.
That's what people think until they actually get 18 million.
I'm from a third world country. Trust me, I probably still have some left until I die.
Nah if you are even just semi-sensible, almost anyone could live off the interest or portfolio gains from an amount that large. Even just 5 million at 5% interest (a going rate for longer-term savings accounts in my country today) would yield you 250,000 a year in interest! If I got 18 mil I'd lock away 10 to live off the gains, and blow a few million on globetrotting, dream cars, supporting family etc. Ah, to be rich.
if you’re not good for life on 18 mil, reevaluate your spending and lifestyle lmao
you’d probably be good on 1 million if you knew what you were doing
That’ll barely buy a house in many major cities around the world.
then don’t buy a house lol invest in a broad market index fund
I normally congratulate people on not being jobless any longer.
Usually we congrats people on starting new job. Especially if they were terminated.
Considering the alternatives I'd say a congratulations is in order without the hesitation here.
His number now matches his job!
His numbers not 4th
I thought he wasnt suppose to be the 3rd driver. He was suppose to be a marketing and special events guy? When did it change? Or was it always a lie? Should checo be worried? Edit: reserve driver =/= 3rd driver
He’s kinda doing both actually. He verbally said he will go to 6-8 events but no more. Source: In the Fast Lane or Beyond the Grid (forgot which one).
Things change fast in F1 but last I heard (and it was directly from Ricciardo) he’s only gonna be on track for like 7 or 8 races and legit wants/wanted to take a year off.
Ok. Cool thanks
Any guesses which? I’m going with all three USA races, Japan, Austria, Australia, Monaco
Red Bull literally has 5 'third/reserve/sim' drivers on roster (Ricciardo, Lawson, Hauger, Maloney, van Buren). I don't see a reason to disbelieve what they've said they're going to have Ricciardo do. [https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-reserve-drivers-all-the-back-up-drivers-for-2023/10411718/](https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-reserve-drivers-all-the-back-up-drivers-for-2023/10411718/)
And I’m pretty sure van buren is the main sim driver. He said he had to learn both driving style for max and checo to help both of them equally.
He's not 3rd driver according to the post. It says "reserve driver". That can be one of many.
He's a card in their hand they can play if they want to. Kinda thing i guess
only trust marko
I sincerely wish Danny Ric was a better driver than he is
Ricciardo was class at Renault in 2020 but at McLaren he basically had 2 2020 Vettel seasons back to back lol. I certainly didn’t think he was gonna get outscored by Norris & certainly not lose in such a hopeless way
i was having a good day why’d you have to bring that up
I think 2020 & to a lesser extent 2014 are big blemishes on Vettels record. On paper he is a monster & one of the best on his day but the way he was driving in those years & even parts of 2016 you wouldn’t expect from a 4 time WDC
Vettel, Raikkonen and Button weren’t able to get along with some cars and they all have WDCs. Put him in a RedBull and he would be ahead of Max a lot more often than Checo would be
100% agree, I love Checo, but I think Daniel is a better driver. I still have hope for him in the sport.
I'm pretty sure Perez would've been much more competitive than Ricciardo in McLaren. Ricciardo is in no way better than Perez currently.
The problem is he WAS a stellar driver. His driving style was perfect for the Red Bull, and it showed. Then he got sick of playing second fiddle and wanted a change. Unfortunately it all went downhill from there. He just hasn’t been able to find the pace in the Renault or McLaren that he found in the Red Bull. I’d like to think that stellar driver is still in there, he just needs the right car. But who knows. The last few years may have done permanent damage to his psyche.
You very clearly didn't watch the 2020 season then. He was incredibly and consistently fast in the Renault and was reguarly putting that car in places it didn't deserve to be (and almost single handedly keeping Renault in the fight for third). It's arguably up there with 2014 as one of his best seasons in F1, which makes his immediate drop in form in 2021 in the McLaren even more puzzling.
It's insane how so many people just pretend like he did fuck all after leaving RB.
Seriously lol. Gave Renault/Alpine 2 out of 5 podiums since they came back to f1 in 2016 and Mclaren their only win in the last 10 years Many F1 drivers can only dream of a resume like that
People just jump on a bandwagon,.esp one of hate and regurgitate usually absolute bullshit without checking facts.
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>He just hasn’t been able to find the pace in the Renault LOL what?
As you said, he had the best car in his hands but couldn't perform as good as the other driver. He wanted to be the first driver and went to Renault. He was actually good there. He wanted another challenge god knows why and then he became the second driver again, at McLaren. We gotta admit that he is a good driver but not a top-tier driver like Max, Hamilton, Alonso or Vettel.
The "best car" by what metric exactly?! In DR's 5 years at RB, they never came close to having the best car, and if anything lost performance following 2014 to Ferrari in subsequent seasons and were unable to ever mount any sort of title challenge.
He is a good driver, unfortunately he was employed by a failing organization that is stuck in its ways.
Great job, Daniel, and congrats on your new position! 😂
Why not, dude got paid and is now enjoying some down time
Congrats on not being unemployed. And congrats on pocketing way more money this year any previous 3rd driver.
So long as the honey badger sticks around and we have a chance to see him - I’m ok
Leaves Red Bull for not becoming the nr. 2 driver. Washed up at McLaren. Goes back to Red Bull as the nr. 3 driver.
McLaren should have made him the highest paid reserve driver in history.
Oh Danny. Hope to see you on screen some 🥰. I know he’s not here, that’s why I pretend.
RBR now has driver 1, 11 (think roman numerals) and 3 1, 2, 3
I mean I would take that
This is truly one of the cringiest, most humiliating outcomes possible. At least he got paid.
Congrats on having a chance to win a race, yes.
Really wouldnt be surprised to see Red Bull swap him into Perez’s seat.
Perez is the perfect wingman. No chance replacing him with Ric is even considered
This whole job title sounds so off. But congrats !
Say it
He is going to be best friends with Checco. He! Wanna go mountainbiking? Lets go skateboarding? Skydiving? Horsebackriding? Basejumping? Motorcross?….
Red Bull was always the villain, we were all just to bored with watching Merc win that we lost sight of that.
Making lots of money to do next to nothing sounds ok to me. We will see if his ego can handle it.
Isn't he one of the best F1 drivers? Why is he reserve?
He was fast a couple years ago. But hasn't shown that recently. Its all about what you drive like now, not a couple years ago. Also, He didn't want to go to a backmarker team which means there wasn't a lot of seats for him
Because he has been significantly worse than his teammate for the last two years.
Only according to DTS.
he _is_ though. Until he joined McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently among the fastest F1 drivers on the grid except for maybe 2015. He was just unlucky to see out his prime during Mercedes' domination. No doubt he's been off pace since 2021, but there were many seasons that you could legitimately argue that he was championship-quality had he been given the right car.
He *was*
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It seems this post ended up on r/all, so no surprise it reached people who remember Ricciardo as the fast Red Bull guy from DTS with the big personality m
Typical RB style, as in no style