Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Daniel Ricardo, Daniel Riccardo, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Daily Show. Thanks. You know, this is
Speaker 1: how long it's been and how much has changed? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you mesmerized by the Yeah, it's it's getting bigger.
Speaker 1: It's a nice feeling, right, Yeah, it's cool. Thanks. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about a few things. Yeah, let's talk
Speaker 1: about a few things. It's like number one. Oh wait, sorry,
Speaker 1: let me let me make you comfortable. There's the water,
Speaker 1: but you don't need water here. Sorry, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what I didn't change this earlier. We can we
Speaker 1: can do this thought. You just make things a little
Speaker 1: more comfortable for you, you know you can, just so
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Just make the interview a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable. You know what I mean? You want
Speaker 1: to make sure everyone's drinking what they normally drink. Here
Speaker 1: we go. Anyone who doesn't know is like, what the
Speaker 1: hell are they doing right now? So do you want
Speaker 1: to explain it? I can? I can. What do you want?
Speaker 1: Go on? Go for it? So um. Daniel Ricardo, one
Speaker 1: of the best racing drivers in the world, has a
Speaker 1: tradition um where when he wins this champagne. You've probably
Speaker 1: seen that the races and they pop the champagne. But
Speaker 1: this man, I guess maybe because Australian decided not to
Speaker 1: drink the champagne out of the bottle but out of
Speaker 1: a shoe very sweaty. Yeah, I mean, it's all the
Speaker 1: flavor of the victory, you know what I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what they say, the taste of victory. And so now
Speaker 1: it's affectionately known as a shoey. So cheers my friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I normally don't do this unless I've won,
Speaker 1: but hey, you've won by being mm hmm. Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. I I just raced in those
Speaker 1: this weekend. Yeah, let's talk about everything. Man. The first
Speaker 1: time you want on the show, I had to explain
Speaker 1: to some people what formula one is. And now you
Speaker 1: are easily one of the biggest stars in the Like,
Speaker 1: can you walk through the street without people recognizing you?
Speaker 1: Uh to watch the bottle. Um, It's it's grown a
Speaker 1: lot like it. It really has. Um. I think since
Speaker 1: you had drive to survive and that's that's had four
Speaker 1: seasons now, three or four four. It's so Yeah, every
Speaker 1: time we get to the States. It's getting more and
Speaker 1: more and people, yeah kind of spotting me and saying
Speaker 1: what's up and wishing me Like so people are with
Speaker 1: masks of your face. That's how your smile is iconic.
Speaker 1: You're joy is iconic. There are many people who watched
Speaker 1: Drive to Survive and they're just like, this is the
Speaker 1: most dramatic sport I've ever watched. You guys like you
Speaker 1: try to kill each other, you crash into each other.
Speaker 1: Max for Steppen famously, Max Snapper famously, I said, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be on the show because it makes
Speaker 1: Formula one seem more dramatic than it actually is. Where
Speaker 1: do you stand, Like how much drama is in the sport?
Speaker 1: There's certainly a lot in the sport, and there's there's
Speaker 1: right there are you know, true rivalries and and all
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Um, you know. So I think with
Speaker 1: the show on Netflix, Drive to Survive, it's I would say,
Speaker 1: they like sprinkle a little bit on top, but it's
Speaker 1: already like drama filled. But then they'll they'll just nudge
Speaker 1: it along and a little bit of hey, how are
Speaker 1: you on top? You know, I want to know how
Speaker 1: you stay being one of the friendliest drivers, not just
Speaker 1: like smiling with the fans. You know. So for instance,
Speaker 1: you recently had a crash, right it was color science,
Speaker 1: but you went up to him afterwards you apologize. Do
Speaker 1: you do you think like there's something in you that
Speaker 1: makes you go, I know we're competing, but you know
Speaker 1: we all want to get along. What is that I
Speaker 1: hated every second of the apology, So it's yeah, again,
Speaker 1: I think probably just with like experience and just being
Speaker 1: in it for so long. Like I know, I have
Speaker 1: the I guess maturity now to know like how much
Speaker 1: we all put into it, and as competitive as we are,
Speaker 1: we all have something you know, strongly in common and
Speaker 1: there's only twenty of us in the world that do it.
Speaker 1: There's only twenty one drivers, so it's you know you
Speaker 1: kind of just respect everyone's journey. And so like the incident,
Speaker 1: you know, like if I hold myself accountable for something,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I feel like I want to just apologize,
Speaker 1: and um, it's not it's nothing personal, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I don't think everyone would do it,
Speaker 1: but for me, I just felt better by doing it.
Speaker 1: So we kind of like clean clean slate for the
Speaker 1: next one. And I know that when we come like
Speaker 1: alongside each other on track next like there's no there's
Speaker 1: no intensity that it will be an intensity, but nothing heightened.
Speaker 1: I guess the next race is my ammy for the
Speaker 1: first time ever, which means no one has raced on
Speaker 1: the track. That's always strange for drivers because you guys
Speaker 1: visualize the track, you remember what it was like, you
Speaker 1: know the surface, the whole. Like, how much harder is
Speaker 1: it to race on the track that you've never raced
Speaker 1: on than one that you've been on before? Is it
Speaker 1: like is it a bit jump or is it that
Speaker 1: you guys are like, I don't know, whatever, it's a challenge,
Speaker 1: Like you there's there's some circuits now that we know.
Speaker 1: Literally I could drive it in my head and if
Speaker 1: you've got like a stotwatch, I would be able to
Speaker 1: visualize within it probably a second and you hit the times.
Speaker 1: That's me when I think, if you time me going
Speaker 1: to the fridge to get ice cream in my head,
Speaker 1: I can do it. I can go all right, and
Speaker 1: then I'm getting I'm going to the couch and huh
Speaker 1: and go to the fridge, act like I'm going to
Speaker 1: get the baby carrots, and then I don't know the
Speaker 1: thing the thing ice cream, and then I'm like and
Speaker 1: then I'm embarrassed. Then I take more and then I'm ashamed.
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, the man as well finish it and
Speaker 1: then huh put it back. Then I'm like, it's not
Speaker 1: finished and I have that. Then I'm like, it's there
Speaker 1: another one. Then i go now to enough enough self
Speaker 1: control closer phrase. That's pretty much me visualizing. It's pretty
Speaker 1: much the thought. Know what you mean, Stu, that you
Speaker 1: don't you visually what you can't You can't do that
Speaker 1: in my are you even gonna be able to concentrate
Speaker 1: in Miami? Miami is a party. It's a full on,
Speaker 1: NonStop party, and you guys are going to be all, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's no. I don't want to say it's tough,
Speaker 1: but for sure when you when you compete in like
Speaker 1: a big city, because some circuits are in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere, you know, um, because you need a lot
Speaker 1: of space to build a circuit, so some are out
Speaker 1: in kind of like in fields somewhere. But you know,
Speaker 1: Miami is going to be it's gonna be around hard
Speaker 1: rock stadium I believe it's called and yeah, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be nuts. But so we'll do. There's like simulators, so
Speaker 1: each team has a simulator, like a very high tech
Speaker 1: sophisticator once. I was on that on Tuesday and trying
Speaker 1: to just learn at least where the track is and
Speaker 1: how it goes. But it's really into when you get
Speaker 1: on track in practice. That's where it's time to learn
Speaker 1: it as quick as you can. And getting to a
Speaker 1: new circuit you kind of gives you a chance to
Speaker 1: maybe catch onto something a little quicker than someone else,
Speaker 1: so it can maybe like create a bigger separation for
Speaker 1: the ones that like click and maybe the ones that
Speaker 1: struggle a bit more before I let you go. When
Speaker 1: you look forward to racist, what are the ones where
Speaker 1: you think, Man, I cannot wait to get back on
Speaker 1: that racetrack and you can't say straighter. That's obviously number one,
Speaker 1: so that's home. Yeah, pick another one. Uh. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just saying this because we're on American soil, but Austin, like,
Speaker 1: I get so excited for really yeah, why I swear
Speaker 1: I have some like some DNA like text and DNA.
Speaker 1: I love it. Man, dude, thank you so much for
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