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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Angus Fontaine

Daniel Ricciardo readies for bittersweet F1 return at Australian GP

Daniel Ricciardo F1 Oscar Piastri McLaren Australia Australian Grand Prix Grand Prix Melbourne Lando Norris Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardo says this Australian Grand Prix will be ‘the first year in as long as I can remember that my goals aren’t going to be 100% about racing and competing’.
Daniel Ricciardo says this Australian Grand Prix will be ‘the first year in as long as I can remember that my goals aren’t going to be 100% about racing and competing’. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA

Daniel Ricciardo returns to the Australian Grand Prix this weekend without a car but still with plenty of local support at Albert Park, as Melbourne prepares for its biggest weekend of the sporting year and Formula One fans eagerly await what is being tipped as the “fastest race in Melbourne ever”.

Ousted last year by McLaren and replaced with rookie fellow Australian Oscar Piastri, the popular Ricciardo will endure the bittersweet experience of watching his home grand prix from the outer as his former team battle to get off the ground floor in 2023.

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