Netflix's Drive To Survive 3 does try hard to make Daniel Ricciardo a likeable character.
I personally think that Ricciardo pretends to be nice infront of a camera or in public, but is a complete ******* when there is no camera around him. Wastes so much time with jokes and choosing wrong fights
like this.
If the media wants to shown the crashes as a spectacular reason to watch F1, it's because the racing has been boring lately and the drivers haven't put a good show on track lately (for me it is since 2007). The racing in F1 is lacklustre and this is reason why the media has only the crashes to show and attract interest from fans.
Lando Norris will become the same as Ricciardo in the future, if he doesn't stop with the jokes and focus more on his racing, because talent for that, he does have.
Joke less, drive more. Then when you have a world championship title, maybe you can relax a bit more and do some jokes around. Hamilton has 7 and can do whatever the f*** he wants to do, like write music or go to fashion events...
Ayrton Senna comes to my mind as the most focused ever racing driver in F1. Maybe he was just a lot obssessed with it, but his focus was undeniably great. He only started to play jokes when Gerhard Berger was around and playing jokes with eachother, and Senna had already won two titles, on his way to the last third title.
The frogs joke was a classic one:
The frogs appeared during a holiday in Australia with Senna, McLaren boss Ron Dennis and then-wife Lisa.
“I went running in the evening and there was this golf course and these big things jumping around. So I went to the concierge, gave him $100 and said bring me some,” grinned Berger.
“He brought me a whole bag full. I think 50. So I asked Lisa Dennis to help me. We had dinner and I picked up Ayrton’s room key and we went to his room and put these bloody frogs everywhere.”
Berger’s follow-up, when a furious Senna confronted him the next morning, was to enquire: ‘And where did you find the snake?’.
Senna's revenge was to put a small piece of french cheese inside the air duct of Berger's hotel room. Nice one...
Other notable jokes:
- Berger replaced Senna's passport with a pornographic picture, resulting on Senna being on detention for 24h when he arrived at Argentina and showed his passport. The most incredible fact here is that Senna went through every airport customs without problems until Argentina, because, eh, he was Ayrton Senna. Senna took revenge by glueing all of Berger's credit cards together.
- Senna fulfilled Berger's shoes with shaving foam, causing Berger to arrive late to an event using sneakers. Berger then took revenge by fullfilling Senna's shoes with butter, causing him to arrive late to a party with Sid Watkins.
And then there is this:
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