Daniel Ricciardo Opens Up On The True Friendships He's Formed This Season - WTF1

Oh, travel on, who doesn’t emotion a wholesome story? Especially erstwhile it involves Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. This has large ‘You’ve Got A Friend In Me’ vibes, and we perfectly emotion it.

It’s just to accidental that Danny Ric has had 1 of the astir challenging years of his vocation during the 2022 season.

Driving a car that isn’t doing what you privation it to, struggling to find consistency and lacking self-confidence isn’t what immoderate F1 operator wants. And to hitch brackish successful the wound, Daniel is present retired of a thrust for 2022 aft McLaren chopped him from the squad a twelvemonth earlier his declaration was owed to end.

It whitethorn not hole things, but having a bully radical of friends astir you tin truly commencement to heal those scars, and that is precisely what Daniel has recovered successful erstwhile teammate Sebastian Vettel.

“I won’t spell into item successful presumption of what was said oregon whatever, but arsenic a wide comment, he’s picked up the telephone aggregate times this twelvemonth and conscionable been a friend,” Daniel confessed.

“[He has] shown attraction and checking in, arsenic a existent person would do. To person friends similar that is truthful important, but it’s besides not that communal successful presumption of connected the grid.”

Most radical person a competitory streak… you should’ve seen maine during the ovum and spoon races arsenic a kid. No 1 could halt me. Extreme competitiveness tends to origin a batch of friction betwixt you and different highly competitory people, and successful F1, a existent relationship is simply a enactment of caller air.

“We get connected arsenic drivers, and you bash physique friendships,” Daniel continues. “But to person that benignant of deeper level of friendship… immoderate gestures helium made this year, and immoderate of the kindness he’s shown towards maine was successful a mode benignant of unexpected. [It was] ace bully of him.”

BRB, disconnected to get immoderate crystal pick and cry.

Will you miss Daniel and Seb connected the grid adjacent year?