Daniel Ricciardo says he will be spending Christmas alone in an Australian hotel room. In late October, Australian Ricciardo said Australia’s controversial and ongoing response to the covid crisis meant he hadn’t even seen his parents – who live outside Perth, Western Australia – for “18 months”. “These kinds of things can wear you down and make you more vulnerable,” he said. So with the restrictions on travel still firmly in place in Australia, Ricciardo has decided to bite the bullet and serve the mandatory 14 days of quarantine in a Perth hotel. “They don’t make it easy for you,” Ricciardo, 32, told the German news agency SID, referring to Australian politicians and bureaucrats.

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