Daniel Ricciardo is a driver and a personality that many have idolized over the years. For Formula 1 fans, the Honey Badger is the man to be, well, at least when he was back at Red Bull. That being said, who did the Australian idolize?
Daniel Ricciardo has been an outspoken NASCAR fan. At the 2021 US Grand Prix last year, he even took his hero’s NASCAR cup car out for a spin at the Circuit of The Americas. That’s right, for Ricciardo, Dale Earnhardt was ‘the’ man.
Before the Brazilian Grand Prix, he spoke about this. He said, “I was a massive Earnhardt fan. When we could pick our numbers in F1, I mean ‘3’ was close to me but it was also like a tip of the hat to Earnhardt.”