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GREATEST RACE: Daniel Ricciardo on the unexpected battle that earned the respect of a champion
Daniel Ricciardo had high hopes in 2014 when he stepped up to Red Bull and pushed to make his mark alongside four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel. In the next chapter of our Greatest Race series, the Australian – whose F1 career now appears to be over after RB’s mid-season driver swap – remembers not one of his breakthrough wins that year, but an exciting wheel-to-wheel scrap with Fernando Alonso that changed the way he thought about the sport going forward…
Ricciardo’s rise to Red Bull
Ricciardo was two-and-a-half seasons into his Grand Prix career – which began with an initial run-out for HRT and a stint at Toro Rosso – when the senior Red Bull team promoted him to replace retired countryman Mark Webber.
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