Ricciardo went one better than just a podium finish, winning last month's Italian Grand Prix at Monza, McLaren's first victory since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix, and Brown duly delivered on his promise. At the start of the year Brown had promised his new recruit a run in the car when he scored his first podium for the team. Ricciardo was stood next to the car's owner, his boss, McLaren CEO Zak Brown, as he gave the TV interviews. I wasn't comfortable catching the oversteers, you have to catch the wheel and I'm not really used to that. But saying that, it handled a lot better than I thought. Just to hear it, and just to change gears, you just felt like you're really on top of it. 'I was really working hard on that wheel. 'I'm out of breath,' Ricciardo told the TV cameras once the run finished.

He was still smiling when he climbed out of the car 20 minutes later.

Wearing an open-visor helmet, his ear-to-ear grin was visible through the windscreen as he drove around the circuit.īefore getting into the car he had the energy of a kid locked in a candy store on Christmas day. As part of his 20-minute show run, he drove a handful of laps and treated some of the early arrivals to COTA's grandstands to some burnouts. It was being fired up by Daniel Ricciardo, at the wheel of his boyhood hero Dale Earnhardt's 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR - a garish blue and yellow stock car painted in the colours of Wrangler. It was a raw, more visceral and throatier sound than the V6 engines of the Formula One cars set to contest this weekend's U.S. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserĭaniel Ricciardo lives out his boyhood dream at the wheel of Dale Earnhardt's carĪUSTIN, Texas - An unfamiliar sound roared around the paddock at the Circuit of the Americas on Saturday morning.

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