Daniel Ricciardo: 'Once you get to like F2 or F1, even if someone’s paid your way there, you’re still putting your body on the line.' F1
Daniel Ricciardo has said so-called ‘pay drivers’ don’t deserve the disrespect they get, explaining that they still have to be “pretty gnarly”.Ricciardo appeared on, where he joined hosts Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky in a discussion about his own F1 career and some of the intricacies of the sport.
Another example of a so-called pay driver would be Williams’ Nicholas Latifi, whose personal sponsorship roster helped him to a seat with the Grove-based squad for the past three seasons.But Ricciardo believes drivers whose progress into F1 has been helped by their financial backing don’t deserve the criticism they get, as they still must have almost all of the same level of talent and on-track success to reach the level of an F1 driver.
Ricciardo made the point that the driver still has to have plenty of pace, as the sponsors behind that driver wouldn’t stick around if the required talent level wasn’t there to justify their investments.
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