Ricciardo's hilarious late-night US TV interview

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Daniel Ricciardo has fixed a typically hilarious Daniel Ricciardo effect to a question connected a US late-night TV appearance.

Having spent overmuch of the off-season successful Australia, Ricciardo is backmost successful the US wherever his Red Bull squad launched their 2023 car aboriginal Sunday greeting (AEDT).

During an quality connected The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Aussie was asked for his sentiment connected wherefore Formula 1 had exploded successful popularity stateside.

"I was going to accidental thing serious, but I deliberation yet it's my bully looks," Ricciardo said, sending the workplace assemblage into raptures.

Ricciardo past did get serious, and attributed the emergence to the Netflix bid Drive to Survive, which is astir to motorboat its 5th play - a people Ricciardo described arsenic "pretty wild".

"Look I deliberation the bid blowing up, I deliberation that's enactment it connected the representation worldwide," helium said.

"There's parts of the satellite wherever it has ever been large - successful Europe Formula 1 has ever existed for many, galore years and there's ever been a halfway pursuing there.

"In the States I consciousness similar it was inevitable to stroke up present due to the fact that you bash sports truthful well, it was conscionable a substance of clip but I consciousness it accelerated done this series."

Ricciardo volition not beryllium connected the grid successful 2023, splitting with McLaren with a twelvemonth near connected his contract.

He has returned backmost to Red Bull Racing, signing arsenic a reserve operator underneath two-time World Champion Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.

Red Bull launched its 2023 livery successful a ritzy show successful New York connected Sunday morning.

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