{"id":73282,"date":"2025-08-16T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:33:06","slug":"daniel-ricciardo-reveals-identity-journey-in-life-outside-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73282\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ricciardo reveals identity journey in life outside F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                Change your timezone:&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-drivers\/daniel-ricciardo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Ricciardo<\/a> has admitted that he&#8217;s learning more about his own identity as he leaves motor racing behind. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Australian star was let go by the wider Red Bull organization in the second half of last season, and appears to have come to terms with having driven his last race in F1. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nRicciardo has been enjoying his time out of the spotlight, opting to dedicate his focus on promoting his own brands in the world of fashion and wine, while taking the opportunity to travel the world.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nBack on home turf, however, the 36-year-old provided a rare interview at <a title=\"Ray White&#039;s Connect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.connect2025.raywhite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ray White&#8217;s Connect<\/a> conference in the Gold Coast, opening up on how he plans to make the most of his the future following his exit from F1 last year. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019ve been trying to figure out who I am other than this race car driver,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019ve come to appreciate the little things more and the meaning of the importance of family and friends.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cYou just have to take everything one step at a time. If you look too far ahead, everything looks a bit daunting.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nREAD MORE: <a title=\"Axed F1 chief Guenther Steiner &#039;set&#039; for multi-million dollar team purchase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1056811\/f1-champion-max-verstappen-unfulfilled-racing-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axed F1 chief Guenther Steiner &#8216;set&#8217; for multi-million dollar team purchase<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo reflects on childhood ambitions<\/p>\n<p>\nThe eight-time race winner also reflected on his upbringing and what sparked his desire to compete in F1.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c[My] childhood was great,\u201d the ex-Red Bull driver said. \u201cI was always driven to do something that scared me a bit.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe reason I got into racing was because no one was really doing it. It was my chance to do something a little bit cooler than everyone else.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI was just showing off, but showing off has got me to a really good place in life.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nREAD MORE: <a title=\"F1 champion Max Verstappen reveals unfulfilled racing dream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1056811\/f1-champion-max-verstappen-unfulfilled-racing-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 champion Max Verstappen reveals unfulfilled racing dream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Change your timezone:&#13; &#13; &#13; Daniel Ricciardo has admitted that he&#8217;s learning more about his own identity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,576,577,3631,931,43439,634,44,1882,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-73282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-gpfans","15":"tag-guenther-steiner","16":"tag-kevin-mckenna","17":"tag-nascar","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-red-bull","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}