Daniel Ricciardo woke up after two years yesterday and remembered he’s one of the best drivers in the entire world.

Daniel Ricciardo’s past two seasons in Formula One have not been ideal for him.

The Downfall Of Daniel Ricciardo

After another poor qualifying result on Saturday fans expected more of the same from Daniel on Sunday as he started 11^th on the grid. The first lap saw him drop from 11^th-13^th and as he went to make a move to get 11^th place back he crashed into his rival. His rival was unable to continue in the race and Daniel was given a 10 second penalty to be added to his time at the end of the race.

Daniel Ricciardo fans once again started to lose hope for their favourite driver, but that’s when the Daniel of old decided to show up.

Daniel went flying past his teammate to get up to 10^th place and then proceeded to overtake 3 more cars in the span of 3 laps. However, if Ricciardo couldn’t get up ten seconds in 5 laps on those cars he had just passed it would all be for not. This feat should have been near impossible, but Daniel crossed the line 11 seconds ahead of 8^th place to hold on to a 7^th place points finish. Daniel received the driver of the day award voted by a majority 24% of fans.

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While Daniel fans are happy for this result, they have questions about where this pace was for the past two years, and will this pace continue in the last two races of the season? Many fans are also left wondering that if Daniel would have performed like this more over the past two years, would he still be on the grid for 2023?

For now lets celebrate Daniels best performance of the season.

In the words on commentator Martin Brundle “welcome back Daniel, we’ve missed you.”