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“Drive to Survive” says a clumsy goodbye to Daniel Ricciardo
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“Drive to Survive” says a clumsy goodbye to Daniel Ricciardo

By Miles Cooper March 4, 2025
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Daniel Ricciardo is the primary individual to speak to the digicam on the first-ever episode of “Drive to Survive,” and from that second on he could be framed as a world champion in-waiting by the docuseries. His goofball allure would captivate F1 agnostics because the present shot to relevance through the pandemic, and a complete new viewers for the game watched alongside as his profession zigged and zagged from workforce to workforce, hopeful contender to F1 expat — and eventually, final season, to a driver with out choices left, when he was unceremoniously (and awkwardly) dropped by the Racing Bulls earlier than the U.S. GP final all.

And despite the fact that the soon-to-arrive seventh season of “Drive to Survive” (reaching Netflix on March 7) has had loads of time to reckon with the lack of its favourite character, the present — like Purple Bull final September, does not fairly know what to do with the second. 

“The Netflix story isn’t working,” Helmut Marko says through the eighth episode of the brand new season; an episode largely devoted to the top of Ricciardo’s run in F1. “Ricciardo will come out of his unhealthy stretch and get again into Purple Bull Racing — that’s the story Netflix had deliberate.” 

By way of the episode, you may really feel the producers hoping that Ricciardo will get what he so badly wished final 12 months: to switch a flailing Sergio Perez at Purple Bull, to flee his junior workforce purgatory, to get another shot at podiums.

“I’d like to be teammates with Max [Verstappen] once more and full that fairytale story. Nevertheless it’s not going to occur by eager about it, I’ve to go and motion it,” the 35-year-old Australian tells Netflix cameras at first of the season. Christian Horner chimes in, “The vary of choices for him are so excessive: he may both discover himself in a Purple Bull Racing seat or again on the farm in Perth.”

At one level through the episode, whereas on the British Grand Prix, Ricciardo meets with Purple Bull’s communications boss to debate the potential of him changing Perez. “Christian’s taking his time to see what occurs right here. He wants success,” Paul Smith informed Ricciardo. In the meantime, Smith is heard instructing RB reserve driver Liam Lawson to explain himself as “respectfully” hungry for the seat.

Within the episode, we get to see Lawson greater than “respectfully” hungry — “Drive to Survive” appears to actively body the younger New Zealander’s ardour and drive as flaws in comparison with the affable Ricciardo. “It’s a irritating factor after I’m watching drivers underperform, as a result of I really feel like I can do a greater job,” Lawson says. “I by no means need somebody to have their profession turned the other way up … however I’m not right here to be pals. I want a seat.” In one other a part of the episode, he tells RB CEO Peter Bayer, “I can not do it for much longer, simply hanging round watching races. I’m shedding my thoughts.”

“Drive to Survive” says a clumsy goodbye to Daniel Ricciardo

Picture by: Netflix

Being pitted in opposition to a fan-favorite, eight-time Grand Prix winner is not truthful for Lawson — however equally, doesn’t serve Ricciardo’s “Drive to Survive” storyline both. (Spoiler alert: Lawson isn’t the explanation he could be axed by RB mid-season.).“I feel we’re higher trying forward than trying behind,” Horner at one level says of his resolution to switch Ricciardo.

Unbeknownst to Horner, Ricciardo is proven within the episode quietly wrestling with related ideas.

“I suppose I don’t need to admit it … possibly I ask the query now,” Ricciardo says, slyly alluding to his retirement. When producers ask him to disclose the query he has in thoughts, he’s reluctant. “It’s too susceptible,” he says candidly.

The subsequent time Ricciardo sits down in entrance of the “Drive to Survive”cameras, it’s for his ultimate interview. “That is it,” he says with a finality that wasn’t current two years in the past, when he briefly exited the game. “My dream was to be world champion, and there have been years alongside the way in which the place I genuinely felt prefer it was going to occur,” he tells the digicam. “I obtained shut. But when I used to be a world champion sitting right here as we speak, does it change how I really feel or how I view myself? I don’t suppose so.”

Picture by: Netflix

Drive to Survive Season 7

Drive to Survive Season 7

Picture by: Netflix

It is a poignant second for the person whose dream drove a lot of the present early on. Besides now, as an alternative of being the A-plot, it is inelegantly shoehorned into the center of an episode.

It is attainable that “Drive to Survive” did not need to undergo the motions twice; the present had already eulogized Ricciardo on the finish of its fifth season, when he misplaced his seat at McLaren. Or possibly, in a season filled with no scarcity of on-track pleasure, producers opted to not make extra out of the quantity two driver on a bottom-ranked workforce shedding his seat. Regardless of the thought course of within the modifying room, you would not have thought this was the man with out whom “Drive to Survive” could have by no means gotten previous season one.

In true Ricciardo style, he ends the episode by writing on the clapperboard: “From S1 to S7. It’s been a experience. Arriverderci!” It marks 68 episodes and an extended methods from the person who informed the world, “I’m Daniel Ricciardo, and I’m a automotive mechanic.” 

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