He’s been one of Australia’s biggest global sports stars since he cracked the big time in 2011 – and as you can see from his childhood photos, that trademark grin has been a habit of his since a very young age. ‘But I also loved it, because I knew that represented like the speed and there was excitement that was with that.’. ‘It felt like an eternity till I like grew enough to be able to get in there myself. ‘And I remember just being on like the little straight and all I think of is, like, freedom.’. Ricciardo was born in Perth, Western Australia on July 1, 1989.

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