Nationality: Australian
Date of Birth: 1 July 1989
Drivers championships: 0
Grand Prix victories: 8
Races started: 257
Pole positions: 3
Teams:
RB 2024,
Alpha Tauri 2023,
McLaren 2021 - 2022,
Renault 2019 - 2020,
Red Bull 2014 - 2018,
Toro Rosso 2012 - 2013
Daniel Ricciardo career
Daniel Ricciardo is an Australian driver who came up through the Red Bull young driver program and after two seasons with Toro Rosso was given the drive at Red Bull when fellow Australian Mark Webber retired from F1. After 5 seasons at Red Bull he moved to Renault for two seasons and then to McLaren for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. After being dropped at the end of 2022 he returned to F1 half way through 2023 at Alpha Tauri who then dropped him part way through the 2024 season.
Previous seasons
2024
Team: RB
Position: 17
Points: 12
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Daniel Ricciardo had a difficult season being consistently beaten by his team mate leading to him being dropped from the team after 19 races of the season.
2023
Team: Alpha Tauri
Position: 17
Points: 6
Race wins: 6
Pole positions: 6 Daniel Ricciardo joined Alpha Tauri part way through the season to replace Nyck de Vries, however he then broke a bone in his hand during practice for the Dutch GP and so ended up only competing in 7 races. This was enough to be signed for the 2024 season.
2022
Team: McLaren
Position: 12
Points: 37
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 In the middle of the season McLaren confirmed that they would not be renewing Daniel's contract after the end of the 2022 season, a season in which he was consistently outperformed by his team mate Lando Norris.
2021
Team: McLaren
Position: 8
Points: 115
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 0 Daniel Ricciardo had a good first season at McLaren, winning at Monza and scoring points in the majority of races giving McLaren fourth in the constructors championship.
2020
Team: Renault
Position: 5
Points: 119
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Daniel Ricciardo had a solid season for Renault being consistently in the points and having two podium finishes.
2019
Team: Renault
Position: 9
Points: 54
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 For the 2019 season Daniel Ricciardo moved from Red Bull to Renault. He had 8 points scoring finishes with a best result of 4th in Monza.
2018
Team: Red Bull
Position: 6
Points: 170
Race wins: 2
Pole positions: 2 He had two race wins this season in China and Monaco, but he also had eight retirements leaving him 6th in championship.
2017
Team: Red Bull
Position: 5
Points: 200
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 0 He had one win this season in Azerbaijan and 9 podium finishes during the season. With 6 retirements he ended up 5th in the drivers championship.
2016
Team: Red Bull
Position: 3
Points: 256
Race wins: 1
Pole positions: 1 He had a very good season finishing 3rd in the drivers championship with one win in Malaysia. He scored points in all but one round of the championship. At Monaco he took his first pole position finishing the race in second place.
2015
Team: Red Bull
Position: 8
Points: 92
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 For 2015 Daniel Ricciardo was promoted to number one driver with the move of Sebastian Vettel to Ferrari. The 2015 car was comparatively slower than the previous year with only 2 podium finishes.
2014
Team: Red Bull
Position: 3
Points: 234
Race wins: 3
Pole positions: 0 He had a strong start to 2014 with his first race win coming in Canada and was the best of the rest behind the dominant Mercedes with 3 race wins and 8 podium finishes.
2013
Team: Toro Rosso
Position: 14
Points: 20
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Daniel Ricciardo second at Toro Rosso was an improvement on his first season finishing mainly in the mid-field and scoring points in 7 races.
2012
Team: Toro Rosso
Position: 18
Points: 10
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Most of his results were in the mid-field with 6 points finishes.
2011
Team: HRT
Position: 27
Points: 0
Race wins: 0
Pole positions: 0 Daniel Ricciardo started his first season in F1 part way through the season as Red Bull had a deal for him to drive the Hispania/HRT car.
