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🇦🇺 Daniel Ricciardo

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Racing driver from Australia. Formula 1, RB F1 Team. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Daniel Ricciardo
Born
1 July 1989(b. 1989)
Nationality
Australia
Current team
RB F1 Team
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Championships
12010
Career wins
19
Career podiums
53
Career starts
305
Career DNFs
39
Racer Rating
6,735
Daniel Ricciardo
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,735
Rank 33 of 38,983 indexed, -59 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Daniel Ricciardo is a racing driver from Australia who last raced in Formula 1 for RB F1 Team. Ricciardo is a one-time champion (2010), with 19 wins and 53 podiums from 305 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,735 ranks Ricciardo 33th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2024 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFUSAUAEBHRSAUAUSJPNCHNUSAITAMONCANESPAUTGBRHUNBELNEDITAAZESIN
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2024-09-22Marina Bay Street CircuitFormula 1P18−86
2024-09-15Baku City CircuitFormula 1P13−8
2024-09-01Autodromo Nazionale di MonzaFormula 1P13−7
2024-08-25Circuit Park ZandvoortFormula 1P12+7
2024-07-28Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFormula 1P10+41
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+150Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 2014Formula 1P1
+139Bahrain International Circuit 2014Formula 1P4
+137Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 2014Formula 1P3
+131Shanghai International Circuit 2014Formula 1P4
+129Spa-Francorchamps 2008Formula Renault EurocupP1
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Silverstone5 starts+29
Shanghai International Circuit9 starts+26
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve10 starts+23
Circuit Paul Ricard4 starts+22
Struggles
Hockenheimring5 starts-30
Autódromo José Carlos Pace12 starts-25
Sochi Autodrom8 starts-25
Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit10 starts-18
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2024▸Formula 1RB F1 Team1800207P17−2366,794
2023▸Formula 1AlphaTauri700006P16−877,030
2022▸Formula 1McLaren22003034P11−7017,117
2021▸Formula 1McLaren221110114P8−1127,818
2020▸Formula 1Renault170210119P5+6957,937
2019▸Formula 1Renault21006054P9−4987,280
2018▸Formula 1Red Bull212282170P6−3317,426
2017▸Formula 1Red Bull201960200P5−5958,034
2016▸Formula 1Red Bull211801256P3+1,0088,651
2015▸Formula 1Red Bull19022092P8−1888,098
2014▸Formula 1Red Bull193830238P3+1,1787,824
2013▸Formula 1Toro Rosso19003020P14−156,662
2012▸Formula 1Toro Rosso20001010P18+7156,677
2011▸Formula V8 3.5ISR1216020P5+2465,961
▸Formula 1HRT1100300P20↑477−591
2010▸Formula V8 3.5Tech 1 Racing1648080P1+4205,830
2009▸Formula 3 MacauCarlin100000—+705,410
▸Formula V8 3.5Tech 1 Racing100000P26−103
2008▸Formula Renault EurocupSG Formula1367050P2+8075,443
▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesSG Formula200000P24↑421+3
2007▸Formula Renault EurocupRP Motorsport300000P23+2,8634,213
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Ricciardo finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇬🇧 Lewis HamiltonFIA Platinum8,6382563721914%
🇲🇽 Sergio PérezFIA Platinum6,80825512013547%
🇫🇮 Valtteri BottasFIA Platinum5,79923911512448%
🇩🇪 Sebastian VettelFIA Platinum6,8842308114935%
🇪🇸 Fernando AlonsoFIA Platinum6,64821610411248%
🇫🇮 Kimi RäikkönenFIA Platinum6,429195979850%
🇩🇪 Nico HülkenbergFIA Platinum6,6671921177561%
🇳🇱 Max VerstappenFIA Platinum8,7241885413429%
🇪🇸 Carlos SainzFIA Platinum7,004187969151%
🇫🇷 Romain GrosjeanFIA Platinum5,1581741235171%
🇬🇧 Lando NorrisFIA Platinum, 4× champion8,775107327530%
🇬🇧 George RussellFIA Platinum, 3× champion8,761107565152%
🇲🇨 Charles LeclercFIA Platinum, 2× champion8,665128448434%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
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24🇩🇰 Christian LundgaardIndyCar6,853
25🇺🇸 Ty GibbsNASCAR Cup Series6,832
26🇺🇸 Chase BriscoeNASCAR Cup Series6,831
27🇫🇷 Esteban OconFormula 16,820
28🇯🇵 Yuki TsunodaFormula 16,817
29🇲🇽 Sergio PérezFormula 16,808
30🇫🇷 Alain ProstFormula 16,802
31🇬🇧 Oliver BearmanFormula 16,792
32🇺🇸 Kyle KirkwoodIndyCar6,771
33🇦🇺 Daniel RicciardoFormula 16,735
34🇺🇸 David MalukasIndyCar6,715
35🇧🇷 Nelson PiquetFormula 16,711
36🇺🇸 Christopher BellNASCAR Cup Series6,685
37🇬🇧 Jackie StewartFormula 16,669
38🇩🇪 Nico HülkenbergFormula 16,667
39🇪🇸 Fernando AlonsoFormula 16,648
40🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoSuper GT6,639
41🇦🇷 Franco ColapintoFormula 16,628
42🇮🇹 Leonardo FornaroliFormula 26,605
43🇳🇿 Scott McLaughlinIndyCar6,604
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Daniel Ricciardo is a retired Australian racing driver who competes at the elite professional level, as shown by his Racer Rating of 7,675. This places him among the world's strongest drivers and means he won races and podiums consistently against the very best competitors in the world's premier series. Ricciardo spent 14 seasons in Formula 1 from 2011 to 2024, accumulating 8 wins and 32 podiums across 257 starts. His primary team was Red Bull, where he contested 100 of those races. Before his Formula 1 career, he won the 2010 Formula V8 3.5 championship and proved immediately competitive in feeder series, taking 6 wins in the 2007–2008 Formula Renault Eurocup.[1]

Throughout his Formula 1 career, Ricciardo competed directly against some of the era's finest drivers. He finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton in 21 of 202 shared races, though he was outpaced over the broader sample. His head-to-head records against Sergio Perez (95 ahead, 100 behind) and Valtteri Bottas (94 ahead, 91 behind) were closely matched, indicating competitive parity with established professionals. He also beat Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, and Kimi Räikkönen on multiple occasions, each a multiple Formula 1 champion. Against the sport's current leaders, Max Verstappen, George Russell, and Lando Norris, Ricciardo finished behind them in the clear majority of races they shared, reflecting the gap between front-running and mid-field competitiveness in his later seasons. His average finishing position of P8.2 across his full career reflects time spent away from the championship battle despite his elite-level rating.[2]

The FIA's Platinum categorisation, typically assigned to sportscar and endurance professionals, marks him as a full professional in that sphere, though it indicates status only within GT and endurance racing. Ricciardo's 305 career starts across single-seaters, spanning from 2007 to retirement in 2024, show a driver who competed at the sport's highest level for over a decade and a half before stepping away from active racing.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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