When Australian Formula One champ Daniel Ricciardo joined Renault again in 2019, he made a wager with then-team boss Cyril Abiteboul that if he managed to get on the rostrum, Abiteboul must get a tattoo. Because it occurs, Ricciardo obtained two podiums throughout his time with the French workforce, managing third locations at each the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix and 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Ricciardo has since left Renault for McLaren – a lot to Abiteboul’s disappointment – however a wager’s a wager. After a lot hypothesis that Cyril wasn’t going to honour his settlement with Danny Ric, the fiesty Frenchman has lastly put his cash the place his mouth is.
Simply hours in the past, Ricciardo shared a photograph to his Instagram displaying Abiteboul at a London tattoo parlour getting inked by well-known conventional model tattoo artist Jelle Soos. Whereas they haven’t proven us what the tattoo is but (teasing {that a} video will come out later this week), it’s nice to see Abiteboul ship on the wager.
The phrases of the wager have been that Ricciardo might select the design of the tattoo, however Abiteboul might select the scale and site. Appears as if he’s elected to get it on his leg, however we surprise what Ricciardo’s picked for the design. A honey badger motif? A Renault badge? Maybe Danny’s personal face and iconic smile? We’ll simply have to attend and see…
Ricciardo himself has loads of tattoos, as do fellow F1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Räikkönen. Ricciardo truly obtained his very first tattoo, a ship crusing around the globe and a lighthouse representing dwelling, again in 2013, when he was on the verge of getting his drive with Red Bull.
Appears as if tattoo challenges are the brand new huge factor in F1. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff challenged Ricciardo’s present boss, McLaren’s Zak Brown, to get a tattoo – a results of an Business Leaders’ Problem begun by the Grand Prix Belief, a charity that helps help anybody who has labored in F1 and who has fallen on onerous instances.
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Brown adopted via on Wolff’s wager (a lot faster than Abiteboul, it have to be mentioned) with a tattoo that honours Ricciardo’s win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix: his first for the reason that 2018 Monaco Grand Prix and the primary for McLaren for the reason that 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Brown additionally made a wager with Ricciardo that if he obtained a podium, he’d let Ricciardo drive Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s 1984 No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR (one in every of many uncommon vehicles in Brown’s assortment) – which the Aussie obtained to do forward of the 2021 United States Grand Prix after his triumph in Monza.
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