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