Daniel Ricciardo has experienced the highest of highs in F1 racing, but he has also plummeted to the lowest of lows – admitting ahead of the Australian F1 Grand Prix that his struggles robbed him of his passion for the sport. When Ricciardo split from McLaren, he had no team to go to and faced a major career crossroads. ‘Coming back last year, I found that I wasn’t thinking about anything else because I was truly happy doing what I was doing. In 2022, I struggled with that and just wanted it to be over.’. I got my energy and my excitement back by pushing a few things to the side, cutting out a lot of clutter,’ Ricciardo said of his time back home. ‘I wanted to be able to fall back in love with training again, but to train and to train well, you need to get some time back in your life to do that properly. ‘I wanted to get that feeling back again, to bring out the old me.

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