Daniel Ricciardo admits he has struggled to cope with Australia’s controversial handling of the covid-19 pandemic. Australian Ricciardo says the situation has even affected him, as his parents live in Western Australia – one of the most tightly controlled states in terms of outgoing and incoming travel. “I haven’t seen my parents for 18 months,” he said in Austin for the US GP. We always want to be superheroes, but the truth is that we really aren’t.”. “But that doesn’t change the fact that we are human,” he added. “We have emotions too, maybe even more as we are in the spotlight.”.

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