🇦🇺 Daniel Ricciardo

Daniel Ricciardo is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in Formula 1 from 2011 to 2024 for Red Bull, accumulating 257 starts across that span. He held Platinum grading, the FIA's highest professional classification for sportscar and endurance racing. Before his Formula 1 career, he raced in the Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula V8 3.5, winning the latter championship in 2010 with Tech 1 Racing.[1]

Across 18 seasons and 305 starts in single-seater racing, Ricciardo took 19 wins and 53 podiums. His Formula 1 record comprised 8 wins and 32 podiums, the bulk of them accumulated during his time at Red Bull, where he was one of 17 drivers the team fielded across the indexed period. He finished fifth in the 2011 Formula V8 3.5 championship after taking a win and six podiums across 12 rounds, combining that campaign with his early Formula 1 racing. In his final Formula 1 season in 2024, he made 23 starts.[2]

Ricciardo's Formula 1 competition included regular matchups against generational-level drivers. He finished ahead of George Russell 44 times across their careers, and ahead of Lando Norris 25 times, both generational drivers with multiple championships between them. Against Lewis Hamilton, who won eight Formula 1 titles and the 2005 Formula 3 Euro Series, Ricciardo usually finished behind; against Sergio Pérez, an elite professional and fellow Platinum-graded driver, the two were closely matched.