Red Bull's 2015 campaign to unseat Lewis Hamilton is off to a fun start, even if Daniel Ricciardo's first win doesn't count in the official standings.
On Top Gear last night, the 25-year-old Aussie buckled into the show's Suzuki Liana to take a run at Hamilton's record 1:42.9 "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" run.
It's about to get real http://ift.tt/1DX1Xzd
— Daniel Ricciardo (@danielricciardo) February 8, 2015
When he crossed the finish line, it was his name being elevated to the top of the leaderboard. Ricciardo ripped through the course in 1:42.2, beating Lewis by a solid seven tenths of a second. What's more, Ricciardo's time spanked ex-teammate Sebastian Vettel's by nearly two seconds, and was a second faster than Mark Webber, the man he replaced at Red Bull last year. It looked like he had a blast:
In Top Gear. Daniel stars in the @BBC_TopGear Reasonably-Priced Car. http://t.co/YCA7XAcIEW http://ift.tt/1CbvQcX — Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) February 9, 2015
Of course, the real competition kicks off on March 15th on Ricciardo's home turf at the Australian Grand Prix.
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There, he'll have a fresh chance to answer the Top Gear audience heckler who yelled, "What does the back of Lewis' car look like?"
Ideally, it'd be a smiling, "I wouldn't know" from the top podium step.
This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com via ESPN, Red Bull Racing.
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